Test 9 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

A hand with fingertips pinched together means

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hand · What happens: pinch, mean · To what, where: fingertips

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 fingertips	case
4	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hand	nmod
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fingertips	acl
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 pinched	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	participle		fingertips not said here				together property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	a hand with fingertips						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

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.

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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