Test 3 · Dinner at the friend's house

«zhōu is porridge so where's the sugar» What's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: porridge · What happens: be · To what, where: porridge, sugar

This is test 3 of lesson 11 «Dinner at the friend's house» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 zhōu	punct
2	zhōu	zhōu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 porridge	dep
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 porridge	cop
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 sugar	advmod
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sugar	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sugar	det
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 sugar	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		porridge		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present		the sugar		tree rules
3	is	present	porridge		right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It always comes with jam, just ask

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	3 comes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 jam	case
5	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 ask	advmod
8	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It					with jam; always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's salty congee, with pickles or egg

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	4 congee	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 congee	cop
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 congee	amod
4	congee	congee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pickles	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 pickles	case
7	pickles	pickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 congee	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 egg	cc
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pickles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	salty congee					tree rules

Option 3

It's a sweet pudding with red beans

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 pudding	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pudding	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pudding	det
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pudding	amod
5	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 beans	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beans	amod
8	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pudding	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a sweet pudding				with red beans	tree rules

Option 4

It's a kind of noodle

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 noodle	case
6	noodle	noodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of noodle	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t3/