Exam question 1 · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★

Select the measure word appropriate to the noun shū in the expression «three books».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select · To what, where: measure word

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	compound
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 shū	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shū	det
8	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shū	compound
9	shū	shū	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 expression	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 expression	det
12	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shū	nmod
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 books	punct
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 books	nummod
15	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 expression	appos
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 books	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the measure word					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

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

zhāng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

běn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

tiáo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

zhī

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zhī	zhī	NOUN	_	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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