Test 11 · Today, tomorrow, now, later
Lín's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba". What's the plan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, plan · What happens: say, be · To what, where: jīntiān · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 jīntiān | punct |
| 6 | jīntiān | jīntiān | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 says | obj |
| 7 | tài | tài | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 le | dep |
| 8 | wǎn | wǎn | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 le | compound |
| 9 | le | le | X | _ | 6 jīntiān | flat:foreign |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ba | punct |
| 11 | míngtiān | míngtiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ba | compound |
| 12 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 le | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ba | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lín's dad | jīntiān | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jīntiān=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: What's the plan?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plan | det |
| 4 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the plan | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Next week, maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 week | amod |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 week | punct |
| 4 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 2 week | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yesterday was too late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yesterday | Yesterday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 late | advmod |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Yesterday | late property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Too late today; tomorrow then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 late | advmod |
| 2 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 late | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 late | punct |
| 5 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 late | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 late | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Right now, today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 2 now | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 now | obl:unmarked |
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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