Exam question 1 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

Identify the numeral employed for «two» when it precedes a measure word, as in «two persons».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, numeral · What happens: identify, employ, precede · To what, where: measure word

This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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 numeral	det
3	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 two	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 employed	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 precedes	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 precedes	nsubj
11	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
13	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 word	compound
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 precedes	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 persons	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 persons	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 persons	case
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 persons	punct
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 persons	nummod
20	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 word	appos
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 persons	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	employ	past	the numeral		for two	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for two=Eventuality
3	precede	present	numeral	a measure word		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Co-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

yāo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yāo	yāo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

èr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

liǎng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	liǎng	liǎng	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4

shí

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shí	shí	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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