Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★
★★★ Odd one out: 人, 山, 火, 明. Which is NOT a single picture?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: single picture
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Odd one out: 人, 山, 火, 明.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 4 | Odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 one | compound:prt |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 人 | punct |
| 8 | 人 | 人 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 山 | punct |
| 10 | 山 | 山 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 人 | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 火 | punct |
| 12 | 火 | 火 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 人 | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 明 | punct |
| 14 | 明 | 明 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 人 | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which is NOT a single picture?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 picture | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 picture | cop |
| 3 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 picture | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 picture | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 picture | amod |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 picture | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a single picture | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
火, a burning fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 火 | 火 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fire | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fire | amod |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 火 | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
明, sun plus moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 明 | 明 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sun | punct |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 明 | appos |
| 4 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 5 moon | cc |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
人, a walking person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 人 | 人 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 人 | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
山, a mountain peak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 山 | 山 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peak | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 peak | det |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peak | compound |
| 5 | peak | peak | 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.
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