Test 8 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays
Lín's mum: "fàngjià le, but hánjià is short". Which holiday is she talking about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hánjià, holiday · What happens: be, talk about
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Lín's mum: "fàngjià le, but hánjià is short".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 le | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 le | punct |
| 6 | fàngjià | fàngjià | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 le | compound |
| 7 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 short | cc |
| 10 | hánjià | hánjià | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 short | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 short | cop |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mum | parataxis |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | hánjià | short 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: Which holiday is she talking about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 holiday | det |
| 2 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 talking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk about | present · progressive | which holiday | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The winter holiday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 holiday | det |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holiday | compound |
| 3 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The summer holiday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 holiday | det |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holiday | compound |
| 3 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A birthday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 birthday | det |
| 2 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The weekend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weekend | det |
| 2 | weekend | weekend | 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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