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title: Identify the expression appropriately employed to commend the flavou… — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the expression appropriately employed to commend the flavour of a beverage. Exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 1 · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

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Identify the expression appropriately employed to commend the flavour of a beverage.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, employ, commend, flavour · **To what, where:** expression, flavour, beverage

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:e1:1
# text = Identify the expression appropriately employed to commend the flavour of a beverage.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	commend	commend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flavour	flavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beverage	beverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  | the expression *not said here* |  |  |  | appropriately *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **commend** | to-infinitive |  | the flavour of a beverage |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=Theme |
| 4 | **flavour** |  |  | a beverage |  |  |  |  | nom flavour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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hǎo hē

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:e1:o1:1
# text = hǎo hē
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	hē	hē	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tài là le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:e1:o2:1
# text = tài là le
1	tài	tài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	là	là	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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hǎo chī

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:e1:o3:1
# text = hǎo chī
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	chī	chī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wǒ chī bǎo le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:e1:o4:1
# text = wǒ chī bǎo le
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	chī	chī	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	bǎo	bǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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**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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