Test 8 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"
Lín mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping). What did he nearly say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín · What happens: mix up, fall, dip, say · To what, where: tùzi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mixes | nsubj |
| 2 | mixes | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 mixes | compound:prt |
| 4 | tùzi | tùzi | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mixes | obj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 falling | punct |
| 6 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 mixes | advcl |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 falling | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tǔ | cc |
| 9 | tǔ | tǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falling | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 dipping | punct |
| 11 | dipping | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tǔ | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 dipping | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mixes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | present | Lín | tùzi | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tùzi=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | Lín not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dip | gerund | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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 did he nearly say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Lín | nearly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Pig instead of rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 rabbit | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pig | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Soil instead of rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 rabbit | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soil | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Monkey instead of rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 rabbit | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Monkey | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Moon instead of rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 rabbit | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moon | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/t8/