Test 2 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand
«èr ge píngguǒ please» — Ming's sister giggles. What should it be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: èr ge píngguǒ, píngguǒ · What happens: giggle, be
This is test 2 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: «èr ge píngguǒ please» — Ming's sister giggles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 píngguǒ | punct |
| 2 | èr | èr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 píngguǒ | amod |
| 3 | ge | ge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 píngguǒ | compound |
| 4 | píngguǒ | píngguǒ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giggles | nsubj |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 » | discourse |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 píngguǒ | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 píngguǒ | punct |
| 8 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Ming | case |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giggles | nsubj |
| 11 | giggles | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 giggles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giggle | present | èr ge píngguǒ | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What should it be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 be | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | should | píngguǒ | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
sì ge píngguǒ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sì | sì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ge | compound |
| 2 | ge | ge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 píngguǒ | compound |
| 3 | píngguǒ | píngguǒ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
èr èr píngguǒ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | èr | èr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 píngguǒ | amod |
| 2 | èr | èr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 píngguǒ | amod |
| 3 | píngguǒ | píngguǒ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
liǎng ge píngguǒ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liǎng | liǎng | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 píngguǒ | amod |
| 2 | ge | ge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 píngguǒ | compound |
| 3 | píngguǒ | píngguǒ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
liǎng liǎng píngguǒ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liǎng | liǎng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | liǎng | liǎng | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 píngguǒ | compound |
| 3 | píngguǒ | píngguǒ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 liǎng | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liǎng | gerund | liǎng píngguǒ | tree 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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