--- title: Identify the Mandarin designation for the day of the week which, uni… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the Mandarin designation for the day of the week which, uniquely, bears no ordinal numeral. Exam question 1 of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/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/) / [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays Identify the Mandarin designation for the day of the week which, uniquely, bears no ordinal numeral. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** Mandarin designation This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:e1:1 # text = Identify the Mandarin designation for the day of the week which, uniquely, bears no ordinal numeral. 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 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 designation designation NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 uniquely uniquely ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 17 ordinal ordinal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 numeral numeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Mandarin designation | | | day | bears no ordinal numeral *obl*; uniquely *property* | 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} zhōumò ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:e1:o1:1 # text = zhōumò 1 zhōumò zhōumò PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} xīngqīyī ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:e1:o2:1 # text = xīngqīyī 1 xīngqīyī xīngqīyī PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} xīngqītiān ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:e1:o3:1 # text = xīngqītiān 1 xīngqītiān xīngqītiān PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} xīngqīliù ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:e1:o4:1 # text = xīngqīliù 1 xīngqīliù xīngqīliù PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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