--- title: Identify the expression customarily employed to apologise for a wron… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the expression customarily employed to apologise for a wrong one has personally committed. Exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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 choi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/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/) / [Thank you, sorry, excuse me](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Thank you, sorry, excuse me Identify the expression customarily employed to apologise for a wrong one has personally committed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, employ, apologise, commit · **To what, where:** expression, wrong one This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e1:1 # text = Identify the expression customarily employed to apologise for a wrong one has personally committed. 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 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 employed employ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 apologise apologise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 personally personally ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 committed commit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . 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 | **employ** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | customarily *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 3 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **commit** | present · perfect · passive | | a wrong one | | | | personally *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} bú kèqi ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e1:o1:1 # text = bú kèqi 1 bú bú X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 kèqi kèqi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} qǐng wèn ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e1:o2:1 # text = qǐng wèn 1 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 wèn wèn NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **qǐng** | gerund | | wèn | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} duìbuqǐ ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e1:o3:1 # text = duìbuqǐ 1 duìbuqǐ duìbuqǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} méi guānxi ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e1:o4:1 # text = méi guānxi 1 méi méi X FW _ 0 root _ _ 2 guānxi guānxi 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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