Test 1 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays
my mate reckons Sunday is xīngqīqī, week-seven, cos it's the 7th day. right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Sunday · What happens: reckon, be, co · To what, where: 7th day
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 xīngqīqī | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 xīngqīqī | cop |
| 6 | xīngqīqī | xīngqīqī | ADV | _ | 3 reckons | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cos | punct |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cos | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 seven | punct |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 week | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 week | punct |
| 12 | cos | co | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckons | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 day | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 day | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | 7th | 7th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cos | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| 19 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 reckons | discourse |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | my mate | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Sunday | xīngqīqī property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | co | present | my mate not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | mate | the 7th day | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it's xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 xīngqītiān | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 xīngqītiān | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 xīngqītiān | cop |
| 5 | xīngqītiān | xīngqītiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 xīngqīrì | cc |
| 7 | xīngqīrì | xīngqīrì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 xīngqītiān | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì | tree rules |
Option 2
No, Sunday is xīngqīyī
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 xīngqīyī | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 xīngqīyī | compound |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 xīngqīyī | cop |
| 5 | xīngqīyī | xīngqīyī | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sunday xīngqīyī | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, xīngqīqī is Sunday, easy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 Sunday | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | xīngqīqī | xīngqīqī | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sunday | compound |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sunday | cop |
| 5 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sunday | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | xīngqīqī Sunday | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, but only in China, not here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 China | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 China | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 China | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 China | case |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 here | advmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 China | advmod |
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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