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title: Identify the course of conduct appropriate upon being addressed with… — Words that hurt — what they mean, neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the course of conduct appropriate upon being addressed with a vulgar Mandarin injunction to depart. Exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 1 · Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said

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Identify the course of conduct appropriate upon being addressed with a vulgar Mandarin injunction to depart.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, address, depart · **To what, where:** course

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said» 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/24-words-that-hurt/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:24-words-that-hurt:e1:1
# text = Identify the course of conduct appropriate upon being addressed with a vulgar Mandarin injunction to depart.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Mandarin	mandarin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	injunction	injunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 course of conduct |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 2 | **address** | gerund · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a vulgar Mandarin injunction | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with injunction=Theme |
| 3 | **depart** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Repetition of the phrase at greater volume

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:24-words-that-hurt:e1:o1:1
# text = Repetition of the phrase at greater volume
1	Repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** |  | the phrase |  |  | greater volume |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent at=place |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Repetition of the phrase to an elder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:24-words-that-hurt:e1:o2:1
# text = Repetition of the phrase to an elder
1	Repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** |  | the phrase |  |  |  |  | to a elder | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Withdrawal without retaliation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:24-words-that-hurt:e1:o3:1
# text = Withdrawal without retaliation
1	Withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	retaliation	retaliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Imitation of the phrase in jest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:24-words-that-hurt:e1:o4:1
# text = Imitation of the phrase in jest
1	Imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imitate** |  |  | the phrase in jest |  |  |  |  | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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