Test 6 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year
Lín's sister falls asleep on the sofa at 10 pm on chúxī. What has she failed?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: fall, fail · To what, where: sofa
This is test 6 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 sister falls asleep on the sofa at 10 pm on chúxī.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | nsubj |
| 4 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 falls | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sofa | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sofa | det |
| 8 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 10 | case |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 falls | obl |
| 11 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 chúxī | case |
| 13 | chúxī | chúxī | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Lín's sister | the sofa | at 10 pm; on chúxī; asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sofa=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.
Sentence 2: What has she failed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 failed | obj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 failed | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 failed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present · perfect | sister | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
niányèfàn, the dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | niányèfàn | niányèfàn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinner | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dinner | det |
| 4 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 niányèfàn | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
shǒusuì, staying up for midnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shǒusuì | shǒusuì | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 staying | punct |
| 3 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 shǒusuì | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 staying | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay up | gerund | shǒusuì not said here | midnight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
bāo jiǎozi, folding dumplings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bāo | bāo | X | _ | 2 jiǎozi | flat:foreign |
| 2 | jiǎozi | jiǎozi | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 folding | punct |
| 4 | folding | fold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 jiǎozi | conj |
| 5 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 folding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | gerund | dumplings | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dumpling=Patient |
Option 4
wǔ shī, the lion dance
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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dance | compound |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shī | appos |
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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