Exam question 2 · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★

Ascertain the meaning of the character 林, composed of two instances of 木.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, compose, mean, instance · To what, where: meaning, character 林, 木

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 林	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 林	det
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 林	compound
7	林	林	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 composed	punct
9	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 林	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 instances	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 instances	nummod
12	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 composed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 木	case
14	木	木	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 instances	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the character 林		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	compose	participle		the character 林 not said here	of two instances of 木	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean			the character 林		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	instance			木		nom instance «event 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

A tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mountain	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	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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