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Test 6 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

Lín says New Year ends on New Year's Day. His granny disagrees. Why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, New Year, granny · What happens: say, end, disagree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 says New Year ends on New Year's Day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Year	compound
4	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ends	nsubj
5	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 Day	case
7	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Year	compound
8	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Day	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Year	case
10	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ends	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	end	present	New Year				on New Year's Day		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: His granny disagrees.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 granny	nmod:poss
2	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disagrees	nsubj
3	disagrees	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disagrees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	Lín's granny						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It ends on Christmas Day

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	2 ends	nsubj
2	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Day	case
4	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Day	compound
5	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	It				on Christmas Day		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It goes on until the Moon Festival in autumn

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	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 goes	advmod
4	until	until	ADP	_	7 Festival	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Festival	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Festival	compound
7	Festival	Festival	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 autumn	case
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present	It				until the Moon Festival; autumn		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It never ends

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 ends	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 ends	advmod
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not end	present	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It isn't over until the Lantern Festival

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 over	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 over	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 over	advmod
4	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	8 Festival	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Festival	det
7	Lantern	Lantern	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Festival	compound
8	Festival	Festival	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 over	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It				until the Lantern Festival	over 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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