--- title: Identify the enquiry whereby a Mandarin speaker customarily solicits… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the enquiry whereby a Mandarin speaker customarily solicits a report on prevailing meteorological conditions. Exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/e1/) [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/) / [Weather and what Granny says to wear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Weather and what Granny says to wear Identify the enquiry whereby a Mandarin speaker customarily solicits a report on prevailing meteorological conditions. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Mandarin speaker, report · **What happens:** identify, solicit, prevail · **To what, where:** enquiry, report, meteorological conditions This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:e1:1 # text = Identify the enquiry whereby a Mandarin speaker customarily solicits a report on prevailing meteorological conditions. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 enquiry enquiry NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Mandarin mandarin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 solicits solicit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 on on SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 prevailing prevail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 meteorological meteorological ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the enquiry | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent enquiry=Theme | | 2 | **solicit** | present | a Mandarin speaker | a report | | | | customarily, whereby *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **prevail** | gerund | a report *not said here* | meteorological conditions | | | | | tree rules | 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} nǐ qù nǎr? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:e1:o1:1 # text = nǐ qù nǎr? 1 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 qù qù X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 nǎr nǎr X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} chī le ma? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:e1:o2:1 # text = chī le ma? 1 chī chī PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} tiānqì zěnmeyàng? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:e1:o3:1 # text = tiānqì zěnmeyàng? 1 tiānqì tiānqì X FW _ 2 nsubj _ _ 2 zěnmeyàng zěnmeyàng X FW _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} jǐ diǎn le? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:e1:o4:1 # text = jǐ diǎn le? 1 jǐ jǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 3 amod _ _ 2 diǎn diǎn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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