Exam question 3 · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

Ascertain the dual signification of the term lìhai.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: dual signification

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 signification	det
3	dual	dual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signification	amod
4	signification	signification	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 term	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 term	det
7	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signification	appos
8	lìhai	lìhai	X	Foreign=Yes	7 term	dep
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the dual signification					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Topic

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

Cold and also hot, according to the season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 season	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hot	cc
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 season	punct
6	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 season	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 according	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 season	det
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Admirable or impressive, and also fierce or strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 impressive	cc
3	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Admirable	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fierce	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fierce	cc
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 fierce	advmod
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Admirable	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 strict	cc
9	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Admirable	conj

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

Option 3

Fast and also slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 slow	cc
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fast	conj

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

Option 4

Young and also old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 old	cc
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Young	conj

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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