Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★
★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, yì, zhī · What happens: say, zhī, be, work · To what, where: gǒu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works.
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 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Aisha | case |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | yì | yì | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 zhī | nsubj |
| 9 | zhī | zhī | NOUN | _ | 12 wrong | nsubj |
| 10 | gǒu | gǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 zhī | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wrong | cop |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 works | cc |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 yì | advmod |
| 15 | yì | yì | X | _ | 18 works | nsubj |
| 16 | tiáo | tiáo | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 yì | flat |
| 17 | gǒu | gǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 yì | flat |
| 18 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wrong | conj |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | |||||
| 2 | zhī | yì | gǒu | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | zhī | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | present | yì | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Both are used for a dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | Both | for a dog | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for dog=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Neither: dogs take běn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 dogs | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | běn | běn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | neither dogs | běn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent běn=Theme |
Option 3
Only zhī is right for dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 zhī | advmod |
| 2 | zhī | zhī | NOUN | _ | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 dogs | case |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | zhī | for dogs; right property | tree rules |
Option 4
Only tiáo is right for dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 tiáo | advmod |
| 2 | tiáo | tiáo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 dogs | case |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tiáo | for dogs; right property | tree rules |
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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