Test 10 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!
«tián» or «tiān» for sweet?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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 tián | punct |
| 2 | tián | tián | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 tián | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 tiān | cc |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiān | punct |
| 6 | tiān | tiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tián | conj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiān | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sweet | case |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tiān | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tián | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
tiàn, falling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tiàn | tiàn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 falling | punct |
| 3 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 tiàn | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | tiàn not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
tián, rising
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tián | tián | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rising | punct |
| 3 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 tián | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
tiān, high and level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tiān | tiān | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 tiān | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 level | cc |
| 5 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 high | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
tiǎn, dipping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tiǎn | tiǎn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dipping | punct |
| 3 | dipping | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 tiǎn | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | gerund | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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