Test 9 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

Why are tāngyuán round, the family says?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: tāngyuán, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 tāngyuán	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tāngyuán	aux:pass
3	tāngyuán	tāngyuán	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 says	ccomp
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 tāngyuán	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tāngyuán	present · passive						round property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the family						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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.

The options

Option 1

Round looks like a shiny gold coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	amod
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 coin	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coin	det
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	compound
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present						like a shiny gold coin	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Round means the family together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADV	_	2 means	advmod
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present		the family				round, together property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic

Option 3

Round ones roll into the pot faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roll	nsubj
3	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roll	obl
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 roll	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Round ones			the pot		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pot=Destination

Option 4

Round is much easier to chew and swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 easier	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easier	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 easier	advmod
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chew	mark
6	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swallow	cc
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Round	easy property	tree rules
2	chew	to-infinitive	Round not said here		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swallow	infinitive	Round not said here		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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