Exam question 1 · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

Determine the Mandarin numeral equal to the sum of shíwǔ and èrshí.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, sum · To what, where: Mandarin numeral, shíwǔ

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 numeral	det
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 numeral	compound
4	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 numeral	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sum	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sum	det
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equal	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 shíwǔ	case
10	shíwǔ	shíwǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sum	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 èrshí	cc
12	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shíwǔ	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the Mandarin numeral					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent numeral=Topic
2	sum			shíwǔ and èrshí					nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

sānshí

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

wǔshísān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sānshíwǔ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

èrshíwǔ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	èrshíwǔ	èrshíwǔ	PROPN	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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