Test 9 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

Which wish is four neat syllables meaning "may everything go as you wish"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wish, four neat syllables, everything, you · What happens: be, mean, go, wish · To what, where: four neat syllables · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 syllables	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 syllables	cop
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 syllables	nummod
5	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 syllables	amod
6	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 syllables	acl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 meaning	ccomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 wish	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wish	nsubj
14	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 syllables	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	which wish	four neat syllables	tree rules
2	mean	gerund	four neat syllables not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	may	everything		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wish in a quote	present	you		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

hóngbāo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hóngbāo	hóngbāo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

wànshì rúyì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wànshì	wànshì	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	rúyì	rúyì	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wànshì	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wànshì	imperative	you not said here	rúyì					tree rules

Option 3

xīnnián hǎo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xīnnián	xīnnián	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 xīnnián	flat:foreign

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

bié dāngmiàn chāi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bié	bié	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	dāngmiàn	dāngmiàn	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bié	flat:foreign
3	chāi	chāi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bié	flat:foreign

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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