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title: Identify the term by which pupils customarily address an instructor… — School words · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the term by which pupils customarily address an instructor in a Chinese school. Exam question 1 of lesson 15 «School words» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · School words

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Identify the term by which pupils customarily address an instructor in a Chinese school.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, pupils · **What happens:** identify, address · **To what, where:** term, instructor, Chinese school

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «School words» 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/15-school-words/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:e1:1
# text = Identify the term by which pupils customarily address an instructor in a Chinese school.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	address	address	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	instructor	instructor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **address** | present | pupils | a instructor |  | a Chinese school |  | customarily *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instructor=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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tóngxué

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:e1:o1:1
# text = tóngxué
1	tóngxué	tóngxué	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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shūshu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:e1:o2:1
# text = shūshu
1	shūshu	shūshu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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āyí

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:e1:o3:1
# text = āyí
1	āyí	āyí	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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lǎoshī

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:e1:o4:1
# text = lǎoshī
1	lǎoshī	lǎoshī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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