Test 6 · ★ · School words

«ming's moody every saturday, what's his problem» What's a likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ming · What happens: be · To what, where: problem, likely reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 15 «School words» 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	_	4 moody	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moody	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moody	cop
4	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	csubj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 saturday	det
6	saturday	saturday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moody	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 problem	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 problem	obj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 problem	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 problem	nmod:poss
11	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saturday	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 moody	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 reason	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reason	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 reason	det
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	amod
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ming		every saturday and his problem obl:unmarked; moody property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	ming not said here	his problem		tree rules
3	is a	present		a likely reason		tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He has no homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 homework	det
4	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	no homework					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He has Chinese school, like six days of school a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 school	amod
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	Chinese school			week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Patient

Option 3

Saturday is a test day in every single British school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 day	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 school	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 school	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 school	amod
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 school	amod
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Saturday	a test day		every single British school			tree rules

Option 4

Saturday is unlucky in China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 unlucky	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unlucky	cop
3	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 China	case
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 unlucky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Saturday			China		unlucky property	tree rules

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