Exam question 2 · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

Given that the present day is xīngqīsān, ascertain the day designated by hòutiān.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, be, ascertain, designate · To what, where: day

This is exam question 2 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 xīngqīsān	case
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 day	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Given	obl:unmarked
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 xīngqīsān	cop
7	xīngqīsān	xīngqīsān	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ascertain	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 xīngqīsān	punct
9	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ascertain	obj
12	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 day	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 hòutiān	case
14	hòutiān	hòutiān	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 designated	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle			day		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present				give xīngqīsān	tree rules
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		day		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	designate	participle		the day not said here		by hòutiān	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

xīngqīwǔ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

xīngqītiān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

xīngqīliù

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

xīngqīsì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xīngqīsì	xīngqīsì	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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