Test 8 · Dinner at the friend's house
In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside. What was it really?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: bite, find, be · To what, where: someone, pork
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 someone | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 someone | compound |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 bites | obl |
| 5 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 mántou | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mántou | det |
| 8 | mántou | mántou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bites | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 finds | cc |
| 10 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bites | conj |
| 11 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | obj |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 finds | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bites | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | someone | into a mántou result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into mántou=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | present | pork | inside property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Topic |
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 was it really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pork | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A zhōu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 zhōu | det |
| 2 | zhōu | zhōu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A jiǎozi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jiǎozi | det |
| 2 | jiǎozi | jiǎozi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A bāozi; mántou has no filling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bāozi | det |
| 2 | bāozi | bāozi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 4 | mántou | mántou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 filling | det |
| 7 | filling | filling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a bāozi | no filling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filling=Patient |
Option 4
A kuàizi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kuàizi | det |
| 2 | kuàizi | kuàizi | 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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