Test 7 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays
Which festival is a family reunion night second only to New Year?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: festival · What happens: be · To what, where: reunion night, New Year
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 festival | det |
| 2 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 night | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reunion | compound |
| 6 | reunion | reunion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | compound |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 Year | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 Year | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Year | case |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Year | compound |
| 12 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which festival | a reunion night | New Year | tree rules |
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.
The options
Option 1
Duānwǔ jié, Dragon Boat Festival
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duānwǔ | Duānwǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | jié | jié | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duānwǔ | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Festival | punct |
| 4 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Boat | compound |
| 5 | Boat | Boat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Festival | compound |
| 6 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duānwǔ | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Zhōngqiū jié, the Moon Festival
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhōngqiū | Zhōngqiū | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | compound |
| 2 | jié | jié | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Festival | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Festival | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Festival | compound |
| 6 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Sweeping Day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qīngmíng | Qīngmíng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | compound |
| 2 | jié | jié | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Day | punct |
| 4 | Tomb | Tomb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sweeping | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tomb | punct |
| 6 | Sweeping | Sweeping | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Day | compound |
| 7 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yuánxiāo jié, Lantern Festival
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuánxiāo | Yuánxiāo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | compound |
| 2 | jié | jié | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Festival | punct |
| 4 | Lantern | Lantern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Festival | compound |
| 5 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jié | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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