Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★
★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October. When should she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: hear, wish · To what, where: Ming happy birthday
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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: ★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Lucy | case |
| 4 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 hào | punct |
| 7 | èr | èr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hào | amod |
| 8 | yuè | yuè | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shí | compound |
| 9 | shí | shí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hào | compound |
| 10 | hào | hào | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 hào | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wishes | cc |
| 13 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | conj |
| 14 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 birthday | compound |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 birthday | amod |
| 16 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wishes | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 October | case |
| 18 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 October | nummod |
| 19 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wishes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | ★ ★ Lucy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wish | present | ★ ★ Lucy not said here | Ming happy birthday | october | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot birthday=Theme |
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: When should she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 she | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 When | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12 February, nearly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 February | nummod |
| 2 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 February | punct |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 February | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
20 October, close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 October | nummod |
| 2 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 October | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2 October, she's right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 October | nummod |
| 2 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 October | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 right | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 2 October | right property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
10 February
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 10 | nmod:unmarked |
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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