Exam question 1 · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

Identify the interjection most commonly employed to express dismay, surprise or affection, according to context.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, accord · To what, where: interjection

This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 interjection	det
3	interjection	interjection	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 commonly	advmod
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	6 employed	advmod
6	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 interjection	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dismay	case
8	express	express	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dismay	amod
9	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 surprise	punct
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dismay	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 affection	cc
13	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dismay	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 context	punct
15	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 context	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 according	fixed
17	context	context	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 interjection	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the interjection		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent interjection=Theme
2	employ	participle		the interjection not said here	to express dismay and surprise or affection; commonly property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

suàn le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	suàn	suàn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 le	compound
2	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

āiyā

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	āiyā	āiyā	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

kù

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kù	kù	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

nèige

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nèige	nèige	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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