--- title: Identify the expression customarily employed to indicate that it is… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the expression customarily employed to indicate that it is the hearer's turn. Exam question 1 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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 choic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [In the playground: come on, your turn!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · In the playground: come on, your turn! Identify the expression customarily employed to indicate that it is the hearer's turn. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, expression · **What happens:** identify, employ, indicate, be · **To what, where:** expression, turn This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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/13-in-the-playground/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e1:1 # text = Identify the expression customarily employed to indicate that it is the hearer's turn. 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 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 employed employ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 indicate indicate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hearer hearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | customarily *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 3 | **indicate** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is a** | present | expression | the hearer's turn | | | | | tree rules | 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 {#o1} zǒu ba ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e1:o1:1 # text = zǒu ba 1 zǒu zǒu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} gāi nǐ le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e1:o2:1 # text = gāi nǐ le 1 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 2 nǐ nǐ X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} děng yíxià ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e1:o3:1 # text = děng yíxià 1 děng děng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 yíxià yíxià PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **děng** | gerund | | yíxià | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} gāi wǒ le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e1:o4:1 # text = gāi wǒ le 1 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` 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. 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