Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★

★★★ Aoife from Galway says «sure, I'll guess every character from its picture, grand». What's the catch?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, catch · What happens: say, guess, be · To what, where: character, picture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ Aoife from Galway says «sure, I'll guess every character from its picture, grand».

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.

Sentence 2: What's the catch?

The options

Option 1

The pictures only work in red ink

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only Cantonese characters are pictures

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most mix a meaning part with a sound part

Option 4

Characters are just random scribbles

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