Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★
★★★ A Chinese dragon is long and twisty like a snake. Which measure word does it share with a fish?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, measure word · What happens: be, share
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ A Chinese dragon is long and twisty like a snake.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 long | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 dragon | case |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragon | amod |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 twisty | cc |
| 10 | twisty | twisty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 long | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 snake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twisty | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ ★ a Chinese dragon | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | ★ ★ a Chinese dragon not said here | like a snake | tree rules |
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 measure word does it share with a fish?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 measure | det |
| 2 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | compound |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 share | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 share | nsubj |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fish | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 share | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · do-support | measure word | with a fish | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
běn, like a book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | běn | běn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 book | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 běn | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
zhāng, like a table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zhāng | zhāng | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 table | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 zhāng | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
zhī, like a cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zhī | zhī | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cat | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 zhī | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
tiáo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tiáo | tiáo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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