Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★
★★★ Freddie writes 木木 for «two trees» and asks if that's a real character. Which is the closest one?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ Freddie, that · What happens: write, ask, be · To what, where: 木木, real character, closest one
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Freddie writes 木木 for «two trees» and asks if that's a real character.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Freddie | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 writes | nsubj |
| 5 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 木木 | 木木 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 writes | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 trees | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 trees | nummod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 writes | obl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 trees | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asks | cc |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 writes | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 character | mark |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 character | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 character | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 character | det |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 character | amod |
| 19 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asks | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | ★ Freddie | 木木 | for two trees | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent 木木=Result for tree=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | ★ Freddie not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | that | a real character | 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 is the closest one?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the closest one | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
森, three trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 森 | 森 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trees | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 trees | nummod |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 森 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
林, a small wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 林 | 林 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wood | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wood | amod |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 林 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
人, a person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 人 | 人 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 person | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 人 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
山, a mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 山 | 山 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mountain | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mountain | det |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 山 | appos |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t7/