Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★
★★★ At the bubble tea shop Ming orders «sān bēi nǎichá, liǎng bēi shuǐ». How many drinks is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, many drinks · What happens: order, be · To what, where: bēi nǎichá
This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ At the bubble tea shop Ming orders «sān bēi nǎichá, liǎng bēi shuǐ».
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 | 10 orders | nsubj |
| 4 | At | at | ADP | _ | 8 shop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shop | det |
| 6 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tea | compound |
| 7 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shop | compound |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 9 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 orders | nsubj |
| 10 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 sān | punct |
| 12 | sān | sān | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 nǎichá | dep |
| 13 | bēi | bēi | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 nǎichá | compound |
| 14 | nǎichá | nǎichá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 orders | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shuǐ | punct |
| 16 | liǎng | liǎng | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 shuǐ | compound |
| 17 | bēi | bēi | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 shuǐ | compound |
| 18 | shuǐ | shuǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nǎichá | appos |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 shuǐ | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 orders | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present | ★ ★ ★ at the tea shop | bēi nǎichá | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nǎichá=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: How many drinks is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drinks | amod |
| 3 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 How | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many drinks | how property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
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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