Test 3 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays
In a cartoon a girl eats a zòngzi leaves and all. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, zòngzi · What happens: eat, leave, be · To what, where: cartoon, all
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon a girl eats a zòngzi leaves and all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eats | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eats | nsubj |
| 6 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 zòngzi | det |
| 8 | zòngzi | zòngzi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | nsubj |
| 9 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eats | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 all | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 leaves | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a girl | a cartoon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | a zòngzi | all | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
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's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
You don't eat the bamboo leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bamboo | det |
| 6 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | nsubj |
| 7 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present · do-support | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | the bamboo | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, the leaves are the best bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaves | det |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bit | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 bit | amod |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the leaves | the best bit | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
You eat only the leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 leaves | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaves | det |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | You | the leaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
Option 4
Zòngzi have no leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zòngzi | Zòngzi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 leaves | det |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Zòngzi | no leaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
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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