--- title: Identify the greeting customarily addressed by a visiting child to t… — At the friend's home: what to say to t… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the greeting customarily addressed by a visiting child to the parents of a friend. Exam question 1 of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/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/) / [At the friend's home: what to say to t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents Identify the greeting customarily addressed by a visiting child to the parents of a friend. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, address, visit · **To what, where:** greeting This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:e1:1 # text = Identify the greeting customarily addressed by a visiting child to the parents of a friend. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 addressed address VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ 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 greeting | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | | 2 | **address** | participle | | the greeting *not said here* | | | | by a visiting child to the parents of a friend; customarily *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **visit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} dǎrǎo le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:e1:o1:1 # text = dǎrǎo le 1 dǎrǎo dǎrǎo X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:e1:o2:1 # text = shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo 1 shūshu shūshu X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 āyí āyí X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 5 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} liú xiàlái chī fàn ba ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:e1:o3:1 # text = liú xiàlái chī fàn ba 1 liú liú X FW Foreign=Yes 3 amod _ _ 2 xiàlái xiàlái X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 chī chī X GW _ 0 root _ _ 4 fàn fàn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} màn zǒu ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:e1:o4:1 # text = màn zǒu 1 màn màn X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 zǒu zǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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