Test 9 · ★ · School words

«is fēn like marks? cos the bus driver said wǔ fēn» What did the driver probably mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus driver, driver · What happens: fēn, say, mean · To what, where: wǔ fēn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	3 fēn	punct
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fēn	aux:pass
3	fēn	fēn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 marks	case
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fēn	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fēn	punct
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 driver	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 driver	compound
10	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fēn	advcl
12	wǔ	wǔ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fēn	amod
13	fēn	fēn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 fēn	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 mean	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	aux
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 driver	det
18	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mean	nsubj
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	20 mean	advmod
20	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fēn	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fēn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fēn in a quote	present · passive			like marks	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the bus driver	wǔ fēn		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fēn=Topic
3	mean	past · do-support	the driver	wǔ fēn	probably property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Five classmates on the bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 classmates	nummod
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bus	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bus	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 classmates	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Five teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 teachers	nummod
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Five minutes or five pence: fēn has several meanings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fēn	nmod:poss
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 pence	cc
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pence	nummod
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 minutes	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 minutes	punct
7	fēn	fēn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meanings	amod
10	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Five minutes or five pence's fēn	several meanings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Five marks out of a hundred, for showing your ticket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 marks	nummod
2	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showing	nsubj
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 marks	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showing	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 showing	mark
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ticket	nmod:poss
11	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund	Five marks out a hundred	your ticket					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ticket=Recipient
2	ticket		your						nom ticket «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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