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Test 10 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

You try the tongue-twister fast and mix up sì and shí. Why is that so easy to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, that · What happens: try, mix up, be, do · To what, where: tongue twister, sì

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: You try the tongue-twister fast and mix up sì and shí.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 try	nsubj
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 twister	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twister	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tongue	punct
6	twister	twister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 try	obj
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 try	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mix	cc
9	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 try	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 mix	compound:prt
11	sì	sì	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mix	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shí	cc
13	shí	shí	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sì	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	You	the tongue twister				fast property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twister=Eventuality
2	mix up	infinitive	You not said here	sì and shí					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sì=Patient

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: Why is that so easy to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 easy	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 easy	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 easy	advmod
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					easy property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	that not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

4 and 10 sound alike to learners: sì and shí

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 sound	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 10	cc
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 4	conj
4	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 learners	case
7	learners	learner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sì	punct
9	sì	sì	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shí	cc
11	shí	shí	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sì	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	4					to learners; alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to learner=Experiencer

Option 2

Because 4 and 10 are written the same way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 written	mark
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 written	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 10	cc
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 4	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 written	aux:pass
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		4				the same way obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Because nobody says sì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 says	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sì	sì	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	nobody	sì					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sì=Topic

Option 4

Because shí really means four in the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 means	mark
2	shí	shí	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 means	advmod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 means	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 south	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 south	det
8	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	shí	four				in the south	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot four=Theme in south=Attribute

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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