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Test 7 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

A friend says the red everywhere at New Year is just because Chinese people like red. What does the old story add?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, red New Year, old story · What happens: say, be, add · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: A friend says the red everywhere at New Year is just because Chinese people like red.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Year	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Year	amod
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 Year	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Year	case
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Year	compound
9	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 people	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 people	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 people	advmod
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 people	case
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 red	case
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the red New Year					because Chinese people; like red	tree rules

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 does the old story add?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 add	obl
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 add	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	nsubj
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present · do-support	the old story						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Red scared away the monster nián

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nián	det
5	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nián	compound
6	nián	nián	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	past	Red	the monster nián				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nián=Experiencer

Option 2

Red is cheap in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cheap	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheap	cop
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheap	obl

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

Option 3

Red means danger, so keep away from the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Red	danger					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Topic
2	keep away	infinitive				the house		away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from house=Eventuality

Option 4

Red is for weddings only, not New Year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 weddings	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weddings	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 weddings	case
4	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 Year	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Year	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 Year	advmod
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Year	compound
9	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 weddings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Red				New Year	for weddings	tree rules

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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