--- title: Identify the expression whereby a child invites an elder to commence… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the expression whereby a child invites an elder to commence a meal before others. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/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/) / [Talking to the friend's grandparents](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Talking to the friend's grandparents Identify the expression whereby a child invites an elder to commence a meal before others. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, child, elder · **What happens:** identify, invite, commence · **To what, where:** expression, elder, meal This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:e1:1 # text = Identify the expression whereby a child invites an elder to commence a meal before others. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 commence commence VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ 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 expression | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme | | 2 | **invite** | present | a child | a elder | | | | whereby *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent elder=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **commence** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a elder *not said here* | a meal | | | before others | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Eventuality | 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 zhǎng gāo le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:e1:o1:1 # text = nǐ zhǎng gāo le 1 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 zhǎng zhǎng X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 gāo gāo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 4 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} nín xiān chī ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:e1:o2:1 # text = nín xiān chī 1 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 3 amod _ _ 2 xiān xiān X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 chī chī NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} nín zuò zhèr ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:e1:o3:1 # text = nín zuò zhèr 1 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 zuò zuò X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 zhèr zhèr NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} hǎohāo xuéxí ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:e1:o4:1 # text = hǎohāo xuéxí 1 hǎohāo hǎohāo X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 xuéxí xuéxí X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` 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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