Test 3 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"
You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo". What might Lín hear?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, voice, Lín · What happens: mean, rise, hear · To what, where: cat, máo
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cat | punct |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meant | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cat | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 rose | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 meant | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 máo | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 máo | punct |
| 12 | máo | máo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 máo | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | You | cat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | your voice | máo | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location máo=Theme |
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: What might Lín hear?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 hear | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 3 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | might | Lín | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
A tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cat, nothing changes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cat | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 cat | conj |
| 5 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | a cat | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A panda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 panda | det |
| 2 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Fur, or the 10p coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coin | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 coin | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coin | det |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 p | nummod |
| 6 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coin | compound |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fur | 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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