Test 1 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

«12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: 12 èrshí · What happens: be · To what, where: 12 èrshí · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 èrshí	punct
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 èrshí	nummod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 èrshí	cop
4	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 tens	nummod
7	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 innit	compound
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 èrshí	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
10	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 èrshí	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 èrshí	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		12 èrshí					tree rules
2	is	present	12 èrshí					right property	tree rules

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

Both mean twelve, it's whatever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 mean	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mean	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whatever	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whatever	cop
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Both	twelve					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Topic
2	is a	present	it	whatever					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, 12 is shí'èr; èrshí is 20

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 shí'èr	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shí'èr	punct
3	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 shí'èr	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shí'èr	cop
5	shí'èr	shí'èr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 èrshí	amod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 shí'èr	punct
7	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 20	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 20	cop
9	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	12					shí'èr property	tree rules
2	is a	present	shí'èr èrshí	20					tree rules

Option 3

No, 12 is èr èr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 12	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 èr	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 èr	cop
5	èr	èr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 èr	amod
6	èr	èr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		12 èr èr					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, èrshí is twelve, bang on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twelve	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 twelve	cop
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bang	punct
7	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twelve	appos
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 bang	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	èrshí	twelve					tree rules

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