--- title: Ascertain the literal signification of the exhortation jiāyóu. — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the literal signification of the exhortation jiāyóu. Exam question 2 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 choice was right. --- [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/e2/) [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/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · In the playground: come on, your turn! Ascertain the literal signification of the exhortation jiāyóu. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** literal signification This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the literal signification of the exhortation jiāyóu. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 literal literal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 signification signification NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 exhortation exhortation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 jiāyóu jiāyóu NOUN FW _ 7 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the literal signification and the exhortation | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Topic | 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} To add oil ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e2:o1:1 # text = To add oil 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | oil | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} To wait patiently ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e2:o2:1 # text = To wait patiently 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 3 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | to-infinitive | | | | | | patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} To form a queue ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e2:o3:1 # text = To form a queue 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 form form VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | to-infinitive | | a queue | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queue=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} To run swiftly ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:e2:o4:1 # text = To run swiftly 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | to-infinitive | | | | | | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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