Test 3 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

Which word points back in time, and which forward?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: point back

This is test 3 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

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 points	nsubj
3	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 points	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forward	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 forward	cc
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 forward	nsubj
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 points	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 points	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point back	present	which word				time	forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1

mǎshàng back, gāngcái forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 mǎshàng	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gāngcái	punct
4	gāngcái	gāngcái	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mǎshàng	obl
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	1 mǎshàng	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mǎshàng back	gerund		gāngcái				forward property	tree rules

Option 2

Both point back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 point	nsubj
2	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 point	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point back	present	Both						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

gāngcái back, mǎshàng forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gāngcái	gāngcái	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 gāngcái	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mǎshàng	punct
4	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 gāngcái	advcl
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 mǎshàng	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gāngcái back	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	mǎshàng	gerund	you not said here					forward property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Both point forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 point	nsubj
2	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 point	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	Both					forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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