Test 10 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays
ugh bro it's three thirty, where are u, ur late. In Mandarin, which time is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: three thirty, that
This is test 10 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ugh bro it's three thirty, where are u, ur late.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 6 thirty | discourse |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thirty | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thirty | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thirty | cop |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thirty | compound |
| 6 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 u | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 u | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 u | cop |
| 10 | u | u | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thirty | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 late | punct |
| 12 | ur | ur | ADV | _ | 13 late | advmod |
| 13 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 u | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thirty | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bro | three thirty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | bro not said here | late, u property | 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.
Sentence 2: In Mandarin, which time is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Mandarin | case |
| 2 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mandarin | punct |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 that | cop |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
sān diǎn le
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sān | sān | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 le | flat:foreign |
| 2 | diǎn | diǎn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 le | amod |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
sān diǎn bàn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sān | sān | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 bàn | amod |
| 2 | diǎn | diǎn | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 sān | flat |
| 3 | bàn | bàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
bàn diǎn sān
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bàn | bàn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | diǎn | diǎn | X | _ | 3 sān | compound |
| 3 | sān | sān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bàn | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
sān shí diǎn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sān | sān | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 diǎn | amod |
| 2 | shí | shí | X | _ | 1 sān | flat:foreign |
| 3 | diǎn | diǎn | 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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