Test 1 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!
Ming throws cloth, you throw scissors. Who wins?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming, you · What happens: throw, win · To what, where: cloth, scissors
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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 throws cloth, you throw scissors.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 throws | nsubj |
| 2 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 throws | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 throw | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 throw | nsubj |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 throws | conj |
| 7 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 throw | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 throws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | Ming | cloth | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | present | you | scissors | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme |
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: Who wins?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ming: cloth wraps scissors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cloth | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ming | punct |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wraps | nsubj |
| 4 | wraps | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wraps | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | present | Ming cloth | scissors | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
You: scissors cut cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 3 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | You | cloth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Product |
Option 3
Nobody, píngjú
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 píngjú | punct |
| 3 | píngjú | píngjú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nobody | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ming, because he's older
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ming | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 older | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 older | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 older | cop |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Ming | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ming | old property | 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.
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