Exam question 1 · Colours
Identify the colour customarily associated with good fortune and celebration in Chinese culture.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, associate · To what, where: colour
This is exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Colours» 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 colour | det |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | customarily | customarily | ADV | _ | 5 associated | advmod |
| 5 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 colour | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fortune | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 associated | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 celebration | cc |
| 10 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fortune | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 culture | case |
| 12 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 culture | amod |
| 13 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 celebration | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the colour | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | associate | participle | the colour not said here | with good fortune and celebration in Chinese culture; customarily property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with fortune=Co-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
Grey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
White
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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