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Test 4 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

Lín's granny from the north and auntie from the south argue about zòngzi. What's it about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: granny · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: zòngzi

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 granny from the north and auntie from the south argue about zòngzi.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 granny	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lín	case
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 argue	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granny	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 auntie	cc
8	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 north	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 south	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 south	det
11	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 auntie	nmod
12	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 zòngzi	case
14	zòngzi	zòngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 argue	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 argue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Lín's granny from the north and auntie from the south					about zòngzi	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about zòngzi=Topic

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 it about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	about	about	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		zòngzi					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sweet versus salty filling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	versus	versus	ADP	_	4 filling	case
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 filling	amod
4	filling	filling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sweet	obl

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

Option 2

Which day of the year to eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 day	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

The colour of the string around them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 string	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 string	det
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 colour	nmod

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

Option 4

Whether anyone should eat them at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 eat	mark
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 eat	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	should	anyone	them = they		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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