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Test 4 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

Lín's mum moans every year "Chūnwǎn is so boring!" and then watches every minute. Is that strange?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Chūnwǎn, that · What happens: moan, be, watch

This is test 4 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 mum moans every year "Chūnwǎn is so boring!" and then watches every minute.

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	4 moans	nsubj
4	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moans	obl:unmarked
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 boring	punct
8	Chūnwǎn	Chūnwǎn	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 boring	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boring	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 boring	advmod
11	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moans	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 boring	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 boring	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 watches	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 watches	advmod
16	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moans	conj
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 minute	det
18	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 watches	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Lín's mum				year		vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Chūnwǎn					boring property	tree rules
3	watch	present	Lín's mum not said here				then; minute		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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: Is that strange?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strange	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 strange	nsubj
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 strange	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means she loves boring things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loves	nsubj
4	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	present	she	boring things					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 2

She must be lying about it being boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lying	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 boring	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boring	nsubj
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 boring	cop
8	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	must · progressive	She						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	it					boring property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's a famous family habit, everyone does it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 habit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 habit	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 habit	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 habit	compound
6	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 habit	punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a famous family habit					tree rules
2	do	present	everyone	habit					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

She is forced to by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 forced	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	present · passive	law	She					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

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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