Test 7 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays
A British card says 4/5. Lín's dad reads it the Chinese way, month first. Which date is "sì yuè wǔ hào"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: British card, dad, date · What happens: say, read, be · To what, where: 4/5, it, sì · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: A British card says 4/5.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 card | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 card | amod |
| 3 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 says | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a British card | 4/5 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 4/5=Topic |
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: Lín's dad reads it the Chinese way, month first.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reads | nsubj |
| 4 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reads | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reads | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 month | punct |
| 10 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | conj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 month | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Lín's dad | it | the Chinese way and month obl:unmarked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Sentence 3: Which date is "sì yuè wǔ hào"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 date | det |
| 2 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sì | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sì | cop |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sì | punct |
| 5 | sì | sì | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | yuè | yuè | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 hào | compound |
| 7 | wǔ | wǔ | NUM | _ | 8 hào | nummod |
| 8 | hào | hào | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sì | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hào | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sì | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | which date | sì | yuè wǔ hào nmod | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5 May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 5 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 4 | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4 April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 April | nummod |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
5 April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 5 | nmod:unmarked |
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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