Test 6 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear
Lín draws a big yellow sun and writes «chū ___ le!» under it. Which word fills the gap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, word · What happens: draw, write, fill · To what, where: big yellow sun, chū, le, gap
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 draws a big yellow sun and writes «chū ___ le!» under it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sun | amod |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sun | amod |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 writes | cc |
| 8 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 draws | conj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 chū | punct |
| 10 | chū | chū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 writes | obj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 chū | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 le | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 le | punct |
| 14 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 writes | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 le | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 le | punct |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 writes | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Lín | a big yellow sun | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | present | Lín not said here | chū | le | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent chū=Recipient clause=Topic |
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: Which word fills the gap?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fills | nsubj |
| 3 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gap | det |
| 5 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fills | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fills | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | which word | the gap | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
yīntiān
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yīntiān | yīntiān | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
léi rén
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | léi | léi | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | rén | rén | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 léi | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
qíngtiān
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | qíngtiān | qíngtiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
tàiyáng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tàiyáng | tàiyáng | NOUN | 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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