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Test 3 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. What's right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: want, be · To what, where: party

This is test 3 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: Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lín	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 5	punct
5	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 5	amod
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 cousin	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 firecrackers	case
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 firecrackers	compound
11	firecrackers	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wants	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 party	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 party	det
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Lín's cousin			the party		to light firecrackers	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to firecracker=Attribute

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Let him if he wears something red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wears	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wears	nsubj
5	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	advcl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 wears	obj
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	wear a condition, not said to happen	present	he	something					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Firecrackers are for grown-ups only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Firecrackers	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ups	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ups	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 ups	case
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 ups	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Firecrackers					for grown ups	tree rules

Option 3

Let him, it's lucky for little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lucky	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lucky	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lucky	cop
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 ones	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lucky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	present	it					for little ones; lucky property	tree rules

Option 4

Let him if granny watches TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 watches	mark
4	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watches	nsubj
5	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	advcl
6	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	watch a condition, not said to happen	present	granny	TV					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme

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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