Test 11 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

Which pair both start with lǎo but have nothing to do with being old?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pair · What happens: start, have, do, be · To what, where: nothing

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 start	nsubj
4	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lǎo	case
6	lǎo	lǎo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 start	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nothing	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 old	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 old	cop
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start	present	which pair		with lǎo	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lǎo=Subeventuality
2	have	present	which pair not said here	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	which pair not said here	nothing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund			old property	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

lóng and niú

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lóng	lóng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 niú	cc
3	niú	niú	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lóng	conj

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

Option 2

xióngmāo and hóuzi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xióngmāo	xióngmāo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hóuzi	cc
3	hóuzi	hóuzi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 xióngmāo	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

lǎohǔ and lǎoshǔ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lǎohǔ	lǎohǔ	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lǎoshǔ	cc
3	lǎoshǔ	lǎoshǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lǎohǔ	conj

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

Option 4

tùzi and zhū

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tùzi	tùzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 zhū	cc
3	zhū	zhū	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tùzi	conj

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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