Test 10 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"
Lín swears lǎohǔ means "old tiger" because lǎo means old. Is that right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, lǎohǔ, lǎo, that · What happens: swear, mean, be · To what, where: old tiger
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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: Lín swears lǎohǔ means "old tiger" because lǎo means old.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swears | nsubj |
| 2 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lǎohǔ | lǎohǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swears | ccomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiger | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tiger | amod |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiger | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 means | mark |
| 10 | lǎo | lǎo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | advcl |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | Lín | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | lǎohǔ | old tiger | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | lǎo | old property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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: Is that right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 right | nsubj |
| 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 | that | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, young tigers are xiǎohǔ only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 xiǎohǔ | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tigers | amod |
| 4 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 xiǎohǔ | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 xiǎohǔ | cop |
| 6 | xiǎohǔ | xiǎohǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 xiǎohǔ | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | young tigers | xiǎohǔ | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, lǎohǔ is just "tiger"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 tiger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | lǎohǔ | lǎohǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tiger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tiger | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 tiger | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiger | punct |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | lǎohǔ | tiger | tree rules |
Option 3
No, it means "old mouse"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mouse | amod |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | old mouse | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
Option 4
Yes, it's an old tiger only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 tiger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tiger | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tiger | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tiger | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tiger | amod |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 tiger | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a old tiger | tree rules |
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