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Test 4 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

You ask «jǐ ge?» about the stars in the sky. Why do friends laugh?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, friends · What happens: ask, laugh · To what, where: jǐ ge

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 ask «jǐ ge?» about the stars in the sky.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 ge	punct
4	jǐ	jǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ge	flat:foreign
5	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ge	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ge	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 stars	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stars	det
10	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stars	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	You	jǐ ge				about the stars in the sky	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent ge=Recipient about star=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.

Sentence 2: Why do friends laugh?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 laugh	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · do-support	friends						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

It's a rude word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

You asked how old the stars are, by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asked	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stars	det
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mistake	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 mistake	case
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	You					by mistake	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the stars					old property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

jǐ ge is for small numbers; duōshao suits big ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jǐ	jǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ge	compound
2	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 numbers	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 numbers	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 numbers	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numbers	amod
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 suits	punct
8	duōshao	duōshao	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suits	compound
9	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 numbers	appos
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 suits	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	jǐ ge					for small numbers	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

jǐ ge means «what colour», not «how many»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jǐ	jǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	2 ge	flat:foreign
2	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 many	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 many	advmod
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 many	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 many	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	jǐ ge	what colour					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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