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Test 9 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

The lion dancer comes to a shop and grabs a red envelope hung with lettuce. Is the lion stealing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: lion dancer, lion · What happens: come, grab, hang, be · To what, where: shop, red envelope

This is test 9 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: The lion dancer comes to a shop and grabs a red envelope hung with lettuce.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dancer	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancer	compound
3	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grabs	cc
9	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 envelope	det
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 envelope	amod
12	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grabs	obj
13	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 envelope	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 lettuce	case
15	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the lion dancer			a shop			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
2	grab	present	the lion dancer not said here	a red envelope					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envelope=Theme
3	hang	participle		a red envelope not said here				with lettuce	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 the lion stealing?

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	4 stealing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stealing	nsubj
4	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stealing	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, call the police, it's daylight robbery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 police	det
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 robbery	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 robbery	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 robbery	cop
9	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 robbery	compound
10	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	the police					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient
2	is a	present	it	daylight robbery					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, but it's allowed once a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 allowed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 allowed	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 allowed	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allowed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		it			year	once property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 3

No, he's buying lettuce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 buying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buying	aux
5	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present · progressive	he	lettuce					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the lion "eats" them: it's part of the dance

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eats	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 part	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 part	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 part	cop
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dance	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dance	det
15	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	the lion	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	is a	present	lion	part				of the dance	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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