Test 1 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand
«ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!» He was counting. What number?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ming · What happens: show, count · To what, where: gun, me
This is test 1 of lesson 6 «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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: «ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 showing | punct |
| 2 | ming | ming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showing | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 showing | aux |
| 4 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 showing | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showing | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fingers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rude | punct |
| 12 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fingers | conj |
| 13 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 10 fingers | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 showing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | present · progressive | ming | a gun | me | with ming's fingers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gun=Topic |
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: He was counting.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 counting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 counting | aux |
| 3 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past · progressive | ming | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: What number?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/t1/