Exam question 3 · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

Identify the expression in which the negative bù is pronounced with a rising tone.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, pronounce, rise · To what, where: expression, negative bù

This is exam question 3 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pronounced	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bù	det
7	negative	negative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bù	amod
8	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pronounced	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pronounced	aux:pass
10	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 expression	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 tone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tone	det
13	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tone	amod
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pronounced	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	pronounce	present · passive		the negative bù	the expression	with a rising tone	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in which=Manner
3	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

bù + chī

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	+	+	SYM	_	3 chī	cc
3	chī	chī	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bù	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

bù + shì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	+	+	SYM	_	3 shì	cc
3	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bù	conj

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

Option 3

bù + hǎo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	+	+	SYM	_	1 bù	compound
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bù	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

bù + xíng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	+	+	SYM	_	3 xíng	cc
3	xíng	xíng	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bù	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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