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Test 4 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

Lín says "wǒ zuò tiān" with a falling zuò. What sounds wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín · What happens: say, fall, sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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 says "wǒ zuò tiān" with a falling zuò.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tiān	punct
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	6 tiān	compound
5	zuò	zuò	X	Foreign=Yes	6 tiān	compound
6	tiān	tiān	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tiān	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 zuò	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 zuò	det
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 zuò	amod
11	zuò	zuò	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín					with a falling zuò	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with zuò=Manner
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «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 sounds wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sounds	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present						wrong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

zuò means tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zuò	zuò	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	zuò				tomorrow		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, both tones mean yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tones	det
4	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing				yesterday		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

zuò falling is "sit, do", not yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zuò	zuò	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 falling	amod
2	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	cop
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yesterday	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 yesterday	advmod
11	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	zuò falling				yesterday	sit property	tree rules
2	do in a quote	infinitive	zuò falling not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

zuò means today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zuò	zuò	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	zuò				today		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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