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title: Identify the interjection most commonly employed to express dismay,… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the interjection most commonly employed to express dismay, surprise or affection, according to context. Exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Exam question 1 · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

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Identify the interjection most commonly employed to express dismay, surprise or affection, according to context.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, employ, accord · **To what, where:** interjection

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool:e1:1
# text = Identify the interjection most commonly employed to express dismay, surprise or affection, according to context.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	interjection	interjection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	express	express	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	context	context	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 interjection |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent interjection=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  | the interjection *not said here* |  |  |  | to express dismay and surprise or affection; commonly *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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suàn le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool:e1:o1:1
# text = suàn le
1	suàn	suàn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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āiyā

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool:e1:o2:1
# text = āiyā
1	āiyā	āiyā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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kù

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool:e1:o3:1
# text = kù
1	kù	kù	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nèige

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool:e1:o4:1
# text = nèige
1	nèige	nèige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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