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Test 5 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

A friend wants to eat a whole mooncake alone after dinner. What would probably happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: want, eat, happen · To what, where: whole mooncake

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: A friend wants to eat a whole mooncake alone after dinner.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mooncake	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mooncake	amod
8	mooncake	mooncake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a friend						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	a friend not said here	a whole mooncake			after dinner	alone property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mooncake=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 would probably happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's only decoration, not food at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 decoration	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 decoration	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 decoration	advmod
4	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 food	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 food	advmod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decoration	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 decoration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	decoration and food		all			tree rules

Option 2

It's healthy, eat two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 healthy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 healthy	cop
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 healthy	conj
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					healthy property	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		two					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's far too rich — families share small slices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rich	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 rich	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 rich	advmod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 share	punct
7	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 share	nsubj
8	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	parataxis
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slices	amod
10	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					far, rich property	tree rules
2	share	present	families	small slices					tree rules

Option 4

It's just a small biscuit, so that's fine for one kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 biscuit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 biscuit	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 biscuit	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 biscuit	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 biscuit	amod
6	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 fine	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 fine	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 biscuit	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 kid	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 kid	nummod
14	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a small biscuit					tree rules
2	is	present	that					for one kid; fine property	tree rules

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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