Test 10 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays
Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit. What story is he thinking of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, story · What happens: look, say, see, think · To what, where: rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» 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: Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sees | nsubj |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rabbit | det |
| 12 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Lín | at the full moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Lín not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | present | Lín | the rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
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 story is he thinking of?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thinking | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | nsubj |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thinking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · progressive | story | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The drowned poet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poet | det |
| 2 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poet | amod |
| 3 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The Monkey King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The monster nián
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nián | det |
| 2 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nián | compound |
| 3 | nián | nián | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Cháng'é and the jade rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cháng'é | Cháng'é | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rabbit | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 4 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rabbit | compound |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cháng'é | conj |
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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