Test 10 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate
Ming and you will meet again at the park after tea. What do you say at the gate?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ming, you · What happens: meet, say · To what, where: park, gate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 1 «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school. 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Ming and you will meet again at the park after tea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 meet | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 meet | aux |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 meet | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 park | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 park | det |
| 9 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 tea | case |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | future | Ming | the park | after tea; again | 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.
Sentence 2: What do you say at the gate?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | the gate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
wǎn'ān
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǎn'ān | wǎn'ān | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
zǎoshang hǎo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zǎoshang | zǎoshang | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 zǎoshang | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nín hǎo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nín | nín | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nín | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
huítóu jiàn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huítóu | huítóu | X | _ | 2 jiàn | compound |
| 2 | jiàn | jiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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