Test 5 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand
Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!» What did you say last?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: count, say · To what, where: bā, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 bā | punct |
| 3 | bā | bā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Counting | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 jiǔ | punct |
| 5 | jiǔ | jiǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bā | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shǐ | punct |
| 7 | shǐ | shǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bā | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 bā | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 bā | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | bā and jiǔ and shǐ | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bā=Theme |
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 did you say last?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | you | last | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme last=Manner |
The options
Option 1
Ten, correctly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ten | punct |
| 3 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 1 Ten | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eleven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Poo, not ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ten | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ten | advmod |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Poo | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nine again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Nine | advmod |
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/t5/