Test 11 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year
Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. What's the one wish everyone needs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, one wish, everyone · What happens: ask, say, be, need · To what, where: family, one wish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 8 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Lín | case |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Year | case |
| 12 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Year | compound |
| 13 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Your mum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your mum not said here | Lín's family at New Year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to family=Recipient |
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: What's the one wish everyone needs?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wish | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | compound |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the one wish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | need | present | everyone | the one wish not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wish=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
zhōumò kuàilè
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zhōumò | zhōumò | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | kuàilè | kuàilè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 zhōumò | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
xīnnián kuàilè
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xīnnián | xīnnián | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | kuàilè | kuàilè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 xīnnián | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
shēngrì kuàilè
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shēngrì | shēngrì | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | kuàilè | kuàilè | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 shēngrì | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
wǎn'ān
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǎn'ān | wǎn'ān | 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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