Test 4 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes
Granny gets two wishes: "gōngxǐ fācái" from one child and "shēntǐ jiànkāng" from you. Which does she probably love more?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Granny · What happens: get, love · To what, where: two wishes, more
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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: Granny gets two wishes: "gōngxǐ fācái" from one child and "shēntǐ jiànkāng" from you.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wishes | nummod |
| 4 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gets | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fācái | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fācái | punct |
| 7 | gōngxǐ | gōngxǐ | X | _ | 8 fācái | compound |
| 8 | fācái | fācái | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fācái | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 child | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 child | nummod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jiànkāng | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 jiànkāng | punct |
| 15 | shēntǐ | shēntǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jiànkāng | compound |
| 16 | jiànkāng | jiànkāng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 child | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 jiànkāng | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 gets | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Granny | two wishes | from one child and shēntǐ jiànkāng; from you | 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: Which does she probably love more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 love | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present · do-support | Granny | more | probably property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
gōngxǐ fācái — she really wants to get rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gōngxǐ | gōngxǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | fācái | fācái | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 gōngxǐ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 gōngxǐ | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 wants | advmod |
| 6 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wants | xcomp |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | gōngxǐ | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | gōngxǐ not said here | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Neither, wishes are rude to grannies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 rude | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 grannies | case |
| 7 | grannies | grannie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rude | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wishes | to grannies; neither, rude property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
shēntǐ jiànkāng — health matters most to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shēntǐ | shēntǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jiànkāng | compound |
| 2 | jiànkāng | jiànkāng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 health | punct |
| 4 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jiànkāng | conj |
| 5 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 matters | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matters | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | shēntǐ jiànkāng and health | her = she | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer |
Option 4
Both are wrong for grannies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 grannies | case |
| 5 | grannies | grannie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | for grannies; wrong property | 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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