Test 2 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays
You cut Grandad's birthday noodles into short bits to eat them neatly. What might the family think?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, birthday, family · What happens: cut, noodle, eat, think · To what, where: short bits, bits
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: You cut Grandad's birthday noodles into short bits to eat them neatly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Grandad | case |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noodles | nsubj |
| 6 | noodles | noodle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bits | case |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bits | amod |
| 9 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 noodles | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 noodles | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 11 eat | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | noodle | present | Grandad's birthday | short bits | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Grandad's birthday not said here | bits = bit | neatly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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 might the family think?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 family | det |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | might | the family | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Long noodles mean long life — don't cut them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 noodles | amod |
| 2 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | obj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cut | advmod |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mean | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Long noodles | long life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not cut | infinitive · do-support | noodles = noodle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
Option 2
Cutting them brings double luck to Grandad this year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 brings | csubj |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Cutting | obj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Grandad | case |
| 7 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | them = they | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||||
| 2 | bring | present | Cutting | double luck | Grandad | year | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme to grandad=Destination |
Option 3
Short noodles are more polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 noodles | amod |
| 2 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 polite | advmod |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Short noodles | polite property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nothing, noodles don't matter at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 noodles | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 matter | advmod |
| 6 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | Nothing noodles | all | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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