Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★
★★★ Ming's granny says the dumplings took «yìbǎi nián» (a hundred years) to fold. How long did they take?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, dumplings · What happens: say, take, fold · To what, where: yìbǎi nián · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Ming's granny says the dumplings took «yìbǎi nián» (a hundred years) to fold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 granny | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Ming | case |
| 6 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dumplings | det |
| 9 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 nián | punct |
| 12 | yìbǎi | yìbǎi | X | _ | 13 nián | compound |
| 13 | nián | nián | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 nián | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 years | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | parataxis |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 years | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fold | mark |
| 21 | fold | fold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the dumplings | yìbǎi nián | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nián=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fold | to-infinitive | the dumplings not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: How long did they take?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 take | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | dumplings = dumpling | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A hundred minutes, to the dot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dot | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dot | det |
| 7 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 minutes | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A long time; it's an exaggeration
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exaggeration | nsubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exaggeration | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exaggeration | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 exaggeration | det |
| 8 | exaggeration | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a long time | a exaggeration | tree rules |
Option 3
Exactly one hundred years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One year, she mixed up the words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mixed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 year | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mixed | nsubj |
| 5 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 mixed | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mixed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | past | she | the words | year | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
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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