Test 5 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays

Which is "late for school" and which is "late in the day"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 late	cc
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 late	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 late	cop
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 late	punct
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 late	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 late	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 late	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						for school; late property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present					day	late 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both mean late for school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 mean	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Both					for school; late property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for school=Attribute

Option 2

wǎn is late for school; chídào is late in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǎn	wǎn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 late	punct
7	chídào	chídào	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 late	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 late	cop
9	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 late	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	wǎn					for school; late property	tree rules
2	is	present	chídào				day	late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

chídào is late for school; wǎn is late in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chídào	chídào	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 late	punct
7	wǎn	wǎn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 late	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 late	cop
9	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 late	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	chídào					for school; late property	tree rules
2	is	present	wǎn				day	late property	tree rules

Option 4

Both mean late in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mean	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl

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

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