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Test 2 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

Your friend was born on 10 January. Lín says his animal is from the year before. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, animal · What happens: bear, say, be · To what, where: friend, 10 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Your friend was born on 10 January.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 10	case
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 born	obl
7	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 10	nmod:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		Your friend		10 January			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: Lín says his animal is from the year before.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 animal	nmod:poss
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 year	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 year	cop
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	before	before	ADV	_	2 says	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín					before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Lín's animal				from the year		tree rules

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Animals change on 1 January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 January	case
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 January	nummod
5	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Animals				january		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Lín just got it wrong, the animal changes on 1 January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 changes	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changes	nsubj
9	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 January	case
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 January	nummod
12	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Lín	it				wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	change	present	the animal				january		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year, not 1 January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 year	compound
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	nsubj
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 Year	case
6	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Year	compound
7	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Year	compound
8	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 January	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 January	advmod
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 January	nummod
12	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Year	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	the zodiac year				at Chinese New Year and 1 January		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

January babies have no animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 babies	compound
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

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

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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