Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★
★★★ Kai from Auckland was born on 25 January 2017: «sweet as, I'm a Rooster, cos 2017». Chinese New Year 2017 was on 28 January. Which animal is he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Chinese New Year, animal · What happens: bear, be, co · To what, where: Kai, 25, 2017, animal
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Kai from Auckland was born on 25 January 2017: «sweet as, I'm a Rooster, cos 2017».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Kai | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Auckland | case |
| 6 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kai | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 25 | case |
| 10 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 born | obl |
| 11 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 25 | flat |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 sweet | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 sweet | punct |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 born | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Rooster | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 as | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Rooster | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Rooster | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Rooster | det |
| 21 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sweet | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cos | punct |
| 23 | cos | co | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sweet | conj |
| 24 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 cos | obj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 cos | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Kai ★ ★ ★ from Auckland | 25 January | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | as a Rooster | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | co in a quote | present | 2017 | 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.
Sentence 2: Chinese New Year 2017 was on 28 January.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Year | compound |
| 3 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 January | nsubj |
| 4 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Year | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 January | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 January | case |
| 7 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 January | nummod |
| 8 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 January | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Chinese New Year | on 28 January | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Which animal is he?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 he | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 he | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 he | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which animal | animal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Goat, three years back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Goat | parataxis |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Dog, the year after it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dog | appos |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 year | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Rooster, just as he says
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | parataxis |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rooster | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 says | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 says | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Rooster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Monkey, the year before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Monkey | appos |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 year | advmod |
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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