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Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★

★★★ Sienna says a river, a road and a pair of trousers have nothing in common. Why do they all take tiáo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, river · What happens: say, have, take · To what, where: nothing, common, tiáo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Sienna says a river, a road and a pair of trousers have nothing in common.

nsubjcompoundapposflatdetnsubjpunctdetconjccdetconjcasenmodccompobjcasenmodpunctroot★PROPN★NOUN★NOUNSiennaPROPNsaysVERBaDETriverNOUN,PUNCTaDETroadNOUNandCCONJaDETpairNOUNofADPtrousersNOUNhaveVERBnothingPRONinADPcommonADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1★★PROPNNumber=Sing5 saysnsubj
2★★NOUNNumber=Sing3 ★compound
3★★NOUNNumber=Sing1 ★appos
4SiennaSiennaPROPNNumber=Sing1 ★flat
5sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 riverdet
7riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing16 havensubj
8,,PUNCT_10 roadpunct
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 roaddet
10roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing7 riverconj
11andandCCONJ_13 paircc
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 pairdet
13pairpairNOUNNumber=Sing7 riverconj
14ofofADP_15 trouserscase
15trouserstrousersNOUNNumber=Plur13 pairnmod
16havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 saysccomp
17nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg16 haveobj
18ininADP_19 commoncase
19commoncommonADJDegree=Pos17 nothingnmod
20..PUNCT_5 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresent★vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2havepresenta river and a road and a pair of trousersnothingcommonvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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: Why do they all take tiáo?

advmodauxnsubjdetobjpunctrootWhyADVdoAUXtheyPRONallDETtakeVERBtiáoNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhywhyADVPronType=Int5 takeadvmod
2dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 takeaux
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 takensubj
4allallDETPronType=Tot3 theydet
5taketakeVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6tiáotiáoNOUNNumber=Sing5 takeobj
7??PUNCT_5 takepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepresent · do-supportrivertiáovn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiáo=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They're all outdoors

nsubjcopadvmodrootTheyPRON'reAUXallADVoutdoorsADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 outdoorsnsubj
2'rebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 outdoorscop
3allallADV_4 outdoorsadvmod
4outdoorsoutdoorsADV_rootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentTheyall, outdoors propertytree rules

Option 2

They all move along

nsubjadvmodadvmodrootTheyPRONallDETmoveVERBalongADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 movensubj
2allallDETPronType=Tot3 moveadvmod
3movemoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4alongalongADV_3 moveadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1move alongpresentTheyalong propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They're all long and thin

nsubjcopadvmodccconjrootTheyPRON'reAUXallADVlongADJandCCONJthinADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 longnsubj
2'rebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 longcop
3allallADV_4 longadvmod
4longlongADJDegree=Posrootroot
5andandCCONJ_6 thincc
6thinthinADJDegree=Pos4 longconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentTheyall, long propertytree rules
2beThey not said heretree rules

Option 4

They're all blue

nsubjcopadvmodrootTheyPRON'reAUXallADVblueADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 bluensubj
2'rebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 bluecop
3allallADV_4 blueadvmod
4blueblueADJDegree=Posrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentTheyall, blue propertytree 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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