Exam question 2 · Names and "how old are you?"
Ascertain the appropriate reply of a person asked nín guì xìng.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, nín · What happens: ascertain, ask, xìng, reply · To what, where: appropriate reply, person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «Names and "how old are you?"» 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 | 4 reply | det |
| 3 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reply | amod |
| 4 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reply | nmod |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 person | acl |
| 9 | nín | nín | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 xìng | nsubj |
| 10 | guì | guì | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 nín | flat:foreign |
| 11 | xìng | xìng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the appropriate reply of a person | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | a person not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | xìng | nín | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | reply | a person | nom reply «communication 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
wǒ jiǔ suì
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | jiǔ | jiǔ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | suì | suì | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
wǒ guì xìng followed by the surname
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | guì | guì | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | xìng | xìng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 followed | aux:pass |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 surname | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surname | det |
| 7 | surname | surname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund · passive | the surname | wǒ | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 3
nǐ jiào shénme míngzi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | jiào | jiào | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nǐ | dep |
| 3 | shénme | shénme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 míngzi | compound |
| 4 | míngzi | míngzi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nǐ | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
wǒ xìng followed by the surname
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 xìng | compound |
| 2 | xìng | xìng | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 xìng | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 surname | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surname | det |
| 6 | surname | surname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | wǒ xìng not said here | by the surname | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by surname=Location |
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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