Test 10 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!
Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins. Who is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two kids, stone · What happens: argue, win, be
This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kids | nummod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 argue | nsubj |
| 3 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 wins | mark |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wins | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 cloth | cc |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stone | conj |
| 8 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 argue | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 argue | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Two kids | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | win | present | stone or cloth | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Whoever is older
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 older | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 older | cop |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Whoever | old property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cloth wins, it wraps the stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wraps | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wraps | nsubj |
| 5 | wraps | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wins | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wraps | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | Cloth | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wrap | present | Cloth | the stone | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
Option 3
Stone wins, it tears the cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tears | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nsubj |
| 5 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wins | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cloth | det |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tears | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | Stone | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tear | present | it | the cloth | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cloth=Theme |
Option 4
Neither, it's a draw every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 draw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 draw | det |
| 6 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 draw | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a draw | time | neither 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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