Test 5 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate
It is Friday home time. Which is better than míngtiān jiàn?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It · What happens: be · To what, where: Friday home time
This is test 5 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: It is Friday home time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | Friday home time | tree rules |
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: Which is better than míngtiān jiàn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 jiàn | case |
| 5 | míngtiān | míngtiān | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jiàn | amod |
| 6 | jiàn | jiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | than míngtiān jiàn; good property | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
xīngqīyī jiàn (see you Monday)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xīngqīyī | xīngqīyī | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jiàn | compound |
| 2 | jiàn | jiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 jiàn | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | you | monday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
huítóu jiàn lǎoshī (see you later)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huítóu | huítóu | X | _ | 3 lǎoshī | compound |
| 2 | jiàn | jiàn | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 huítóu | flat:foreign |
| 3 | lǎoshī | lǎoshī | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 lǎoshī | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 see | advmod |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | you | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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