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title: Identify the utterance whereby a speaker of Mandarin customarily sig… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the utterance whereby a speaker of Mandarin customarily signifies hunger. Exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

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Identify the utterance whereby a speaker of Mandarin customarily signifies hunger.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, speaker · **What happens:** identify, signify · **To what, where:** utterance, hunger

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:e1:1
# text = Identify the utterance whereby a speaker of Mandarin customarily signifies hunger.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 utterance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme |
| 2 | **signify** | present | a speaker of Mandarin | hunger |  |  |  | customarily, whereby *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hunger=Theme |

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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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wǒ kùn le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:e1:o1:1
# text = wǒ kùn le
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	kùn	kùn	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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wǒ lèi le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:e1:o2:1
# text = wǒ lèi le
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	lèi	lèi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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wǒ è le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:e1:o3:1
# text = wǒ è le
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	è	è	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wǒ kě le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:e1:o4:1
# text = wǒ kě le
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	kě	kě	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	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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