Exam question 1 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters

Identify the term by which a child customarily addresses an elder brother.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, address · To what, where: term, elder brother

This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 addresses	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addresses	nsubj
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	9 addresses	advmod
9	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addresses	obj
13	.	.	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 term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	address	present	a child		a elder brother			customarily property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Destination

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

mèimei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

bàba

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

dìdi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gēge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gēge	gēge	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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