Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★
★★★ Josh from Bristol goes «gurt easy, ge works for everything, so yí ge shū». What would a Chinese friend usually say?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, ge, Chinese friend · What happens: go, gurt, work, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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: ★★★ Josh from Bristol goes «gurt easy, ge works for everything, so yí ge shū».
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 Josh | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bristol | case |
| 6 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Josh | nmod |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 gurt | punct |
| 9 | gurt | gurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 goes | advcl |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gurt | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 works | punct |
| 12 | ge | ge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 works | nsubj |
| 13 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 goes | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 works | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shū | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 shū | advmod |
| 18 | yí | yí | ADP | _ | 20 shū | case |
| 19 | ge | ge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shū | compound |
| 20 | shū | shū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | obl |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 shū | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Josh ★ ★ ★ from Bristol | yí ge shū | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | gurt in a quote | infinitive | Josh ★ ★ ★ from Bristol not said here | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work in a quote | present | ge | for everything | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for everything=Beneficiary |
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: What would a Chinese friend usually say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | a Chinese friend | usually property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
yì zhāng shū
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yì | yì | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | zhāng | zhāng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 yì | advcl |
| 3 | shū | shū | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 zhāng | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zhāng | gerund | shū | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yì tiáo shū
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yì | yì | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | tiáo | tiáo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 yì | flat |
| 3 | shū | shū | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 yì | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yì běn shū
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yì | yì | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | běn | běn | X | _ | 1 yì | flat |
| 3 | shū | shū | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 yì | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yí ge shū, he's spot on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yí | yí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shū | compound |
| 2 | ge | ge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shū | compound |
| 3 | shū | shū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spot | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shū | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spot | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spot | aux:pass |
| 7 | spot | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | present · passive | yí ge shū | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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