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Test 8 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

In a cartoon the family eats the reunion dinner on New Year's Day morning. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: reunion dinner, cartoon

This is test 8 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: In a cartoon the family eats the reunion dinner on New Year's Day morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dinner	det
8	reunion	reunion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dinner	compound
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 morning	case
11	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Year	compound
12	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 morning	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Year	case
14	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 morning	compound
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the family	the reunion dinner		a cartoon	morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It should be at Easter

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	5 Easter	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 Easter	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 Easter	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Easter	case
5	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	It			Easter			tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, it's breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 breakfast	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 breakfast	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breakfast	cop
5	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	Nothing breakfast					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

niányèfàn is on New Year's Eve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	niányèfàn	niányèfàn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Eve	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Eve	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 Eve	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Year	compound
5	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Eve	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Year	case
7	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	niányèfàn			New Year's Eve			tree rules

Option 4

It should be at the Moon Festival

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	7 Festival	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Festival	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Festival	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 Festival	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Festival	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Festival	compound
7	Festival	Festival	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	It			the Moon Festival			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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