Test 12 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays
Lín's cousin says all Chinese festivals are parties. Which one shows he's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Chinese festivals, one · What happens: say, be, show · To what, where: parties · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★ 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's cousin says all Chinese festivals are parties.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 festivals | det:predet |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 festivals | amod |
| 7 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 parties | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 parties | cop |
| 9 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lín's cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | all Chinese festivals | parties | 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 one shows he's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | which one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | cousin | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Zhōngqiū jié, with mooncakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhōngqiū | Zhōngqiū | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | compound |
| 2 | jié | jié | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mooncakes | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 mooncakes | case |
| 5 | mooncakes | mooncake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jié | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Qīngmíng jié, a quiet day at family graves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qīngmíng | Qīngmíng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | compound |
| 2 | jié | jié | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | appos |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 graves | case |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 graves | compound |
| 9 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yuánxiāo jié, with lanterns and riddles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuánxiāo | Yuánxiāo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | compound |
| 2 | jié | jié | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lanterns | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lanterns | case |
| 5 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jié | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 riddles | cc |
| 7 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lanterns | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Duānwǔ jié, with boat races
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duānwǔ | Duānwǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | jié | jié | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duānwǔ | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 races | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 races | case |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 races | compound |
| 6 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Duānwǔ | 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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