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description: Determine the classification appropriate to the act of pulling one's eyes so as to imitate persons of Chinese descent. Exam question 4 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 cho
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# Exam question 4 · The body

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Determine the classification appropriate to the act of pulling one's eyes so as to imitate persons of Chinese descent.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, act · **What happens:** determine, pull, imitate · **To what, where:** classification, one, persons

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e4:1
# text = Determine the classification appropriate to the act of pulling one's eyes so as to imitate persons of Chinese descent.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	classification	classification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
17	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the classification |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent classification=Theme eye=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund | the act *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **imitate** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | persons of Chinese descent |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Racist mockery, not a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e4:o1:1
# text = Racist mockery, not a joke
1	Racist	racist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mockery	mockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A traditional greeting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e4:o2:1
# text = A traditional greeting
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A medical examination

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e4:o3:1
# text = A medical examination
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A playground game without consequence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:e4:o4:1
# text = A playground game without consequence
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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