Test 9 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"
Lín is a Tiger. In the zodiac order, which animal's year comes right after the Tiger?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, year · What happens: be, come · To what, where: Tiger, zodiac order
This is test 9 · ★★ 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 is a Tiger.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tiger | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Tiger | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Tiger | det |
| 4 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tiger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lín | a Tiger | 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.
Sentence 2: In the zodiac order, which animal's year comes right after the Tiger?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 order | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 order | det |
| 3 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 order | compound |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 order | punct |
| 6 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 year | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 animal | case |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 comes | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 Tiger | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tiger | det |
| 14 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | which animal's year | the zodiac order | after the Tiger | right property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Snake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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