Test 10 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

Which two things happen at the same table on New Year's Eve?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen · To what, where: same table

This is test 10 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 happen	nsubj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 things	nummod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	nsubj
4	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 table	amod
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happen	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 Eve	case
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Year	compound
11	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Eve	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Year	case
13	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 table	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present				the same table on New Year's Eve			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at table=Location

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

Chūnwǎn and shǎng yuè

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chūnwǎn	Chūnwǎn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 yuè	cc
3	shǎng	shǎng	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yuè	compound
4	yuè	yuè	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chūnwǎn	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

bāo jiǎozi and niányèfàn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bāo	bāo	X	_	root	root
2	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bāo	flat:foreign
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 niányèfàn	cc
4	niányèfàn	niányèfàn	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 bāo	conj

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

Option 3

wǔ shī and fàng biānpào

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǔ	wǔ	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shī	compound
2	shī	shī	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 biānpào	cc
4	fàng	fàng	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 biānpào	compound
5	biānpào	biānpào	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shī	conj

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

Option 4

sài lóngzhōu and zòngzi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sài	sài	X	_	2 lóngzhōu	compound
2	lóngzhōu	lóngzhōu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 zòngzi	cc
4	zòngzi	zòngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lóngzhōu	conj

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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