Test 1 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

my friend says Chinese New Year is on 1 Jan like ours but they just party more. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Chinese New Year, they · What happens: say, be · To what, where: party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Year	compound
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Year	compound
6	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Jan	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Jan	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Jan	case
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 Jan	nummod
10	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 ours	case
12	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Jan	obl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 more	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 more	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 party	advmod
16	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 more	obl:unmarked
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 Jan	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Jan	punct
19	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Chinese New Year		on 1 Jan; like ours	tree rules
3	be		they	party		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

Yes, but only in China

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

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, it's always in March, in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 March	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 March	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 March	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 March	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 March	case
7	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 March	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 spring	case
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 March	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				spring	in March; always property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, same day, just a much bigger party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 party	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 party	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 party	det
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 bigger	advmod
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 party	amod
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's late Jan or Feb, by the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Jan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Jan	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Jan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Jan	cop
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Jan	amod
6	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 Feb	cc
8	Feb	February	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	6 Jan	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moon	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 moon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moon	det
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Jan	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	late Jan or Feb					tree rules

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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