Test 3 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

«we lost nil-three, crap» How would Ming say the score?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, Ming · What happens: lose, say · To what, where: nil, score · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	_	3 lost	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nil	nil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 three	punct
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nil	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crap	punct
8	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nil	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 say	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lost	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 score	det
15	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past	we	nil and crap					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nil=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	would	Ming	the score					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent score=Topic

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

sān bǐ líng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	3 líng	compound
2	bǐ	bǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sān	flat:foreign
3	líng	líng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

shí sān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shí	shí	X	_	root	root
2	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	1 shí	flat:foreign

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

Option 3

sān líng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	2 líng	compound
2	líng	líng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

líng bǐ sān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	líng	líng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bǐ	bǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sān	compound
3	sān	sān	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 líng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	líng	gerund		bǐ sān					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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