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title: Identify the expression whereby an adult customarily enquires as to… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the expression whereby an adult customarily enquires as to the location of a child's pain. Exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The body» 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 · The body

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Identify the expression whereby an adult customarily enquires as to the location of a child's pain.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, adult, child · **What happens:** identify, enquire, pain · **To what, where:** expression

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The body» 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/18-the-body/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e1:1
# text = Identify the expression whereby an adult customarily enquires as to the location of a child's pain.
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	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	enquires	enquire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | **enquire** *speech: other* | present | a adult |  |  |  |  | as the location of a child's pain; customarily, whereby *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pain** |  | a child |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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zhèr téng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e1:o1:1
# text = zhèr téng
1	zhèr	zhèr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	téng	téng	NOUN	NN	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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dùzi jiào le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e1:o2:1
# text = dùzi jiào le
1	dùzi	dùzi	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	jiào	jiào	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 {#o3}

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bù téng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e1:o3:1
# text = bù téng
1	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	téng	téng	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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nǎr téng?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e1:o4:1
# text = nǎr téng?
1	nǎr	nǎr	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	advmod	_	_
2	téng	téng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **téng** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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