Exam question 3 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

Select the response consistent with the established usage of yāo.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, use · To what, where: response, yāo

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 usage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 usage	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 usage	amod
8	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 yāo	case
10	yāo	yāo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 usage	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	use			yāo	nom usage «act 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

It denotes the numeral seven when telephone numbers are read aloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 numeral	det
4	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 numeral	flat
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 read	mark
7	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 numbers	compound
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 read	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux:pass
10	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 denotes	advcl
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	10 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	the numeral					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot numeral=Topic
2	read	present · passive		telephone numbers				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2

It is the numeral zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 zero	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 zero	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zero	det
4	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zero	compound
5	zero	zero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the numeral zero					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It denotes the digit one when numbers are read digit by digit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 digit	det
4	digit	digit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 digit	flat
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 read	mark
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 read	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 read	aux:pass
9	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 denotes	advcl
10	digit	digit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 digit	case
12	digit	digit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	the digit					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot digit=Topic
2	read	present · passive	digit	numbers					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient digit=Topic

Option 4

It denotes two of an object

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 denotes	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 object	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 object	det
6	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 two	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	two of a object					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot two=Topic

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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