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title: Identify the Mandarin term denoting the day subsequent to the morrow. — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the Mandarin term denoting the day subsequent to the morrow. Exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

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Identify the Mandarin term denoting the day subsequent to the morrow.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Mandarin term · **What happens:** identify, denote · **To what, where:** Mandarin term, day subsequent

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:e1:1
# text = Identify the Mandarin term denoting the day subsequent to the morrow.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Mandarin	mandarin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	subsequent	subsequent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	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 Mandarin term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | gerund | the Mandarin term *not said here* | the day subsequent |  |  |  | to the morrow | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subsequent=Theme to morrow=Attribute |

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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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míngtiān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:e1:o1:1
# text = míngtiān
1	míngtiān	míngtiān	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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qiántiān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:e1:o2:1
# text = qiántiān
1	qiántiān	qiántiān	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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zuótiān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:e1:o3:1
# text = zuótiān
1	zuótiān	zuótiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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hòutiān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:e1:o4:1
# text = hòutiān
1	hòutiān	hòutiān	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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