Test 7 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!
Rock-paper-scissors ends with both of you throwing stone. What does Ming say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rock paper scissors, Ming · What happens: end, throw, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Rock-paper-scissors ends with both of you throwing stone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scissors | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rock | punct |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scissors | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 paper | punct |
| 5 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ends | nsubj |
| 6 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 stone | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 both | nmod |
| 11 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stone | amod |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Rock paper scissors | with throwing stone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with stone=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 does Ming say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | Ming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
píngjú, zài lái!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | píngjú | píngjú | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 zài | punct |
| 3 | zài | zài | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 píngjú | appos |
| 4 | lái | lái | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 zài | flat |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 píngjú | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nǐ shū le!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | shū | shū | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 nǐ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
wǒ yíng le!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | yíng | yíng | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 wǒ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nǐ zuòbì!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nǐ | nǐ | X | _ | 2 zuòbì | compound |
| 2 | zuòbì | zuòbì | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 zuòbì | punct |
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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