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Test 4 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

Mei says the whole world celebrates Chinese New Year. What is accurate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, whole world · What happens: say, celebrate, be · To what, where: Chinese New Year · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» of the history 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: Mei says the whole world celebrates Chinese New Year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 celebrates	nsubj
6	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Year	compound
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Year	compound
9	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 celebrates	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	celebrate	present	the whole world	Chinese New Year					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent year=Theme

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: What is accurate?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 accurate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 accurate	cop
3	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 accurate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						accurate property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is celebrated only in China and only in Beijing

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	3 celebrated	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 celebrated	aux:pass
3	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 China	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 celebrated	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Beijing	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 Beijing	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Beijing	case
10	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 China	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	present · passive		It		China and Beijing			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Every person on Earth celebrates it as a holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 celebrates	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Earth	case
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 person	nmod
5	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 celebrates	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 holiday	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 holiday	det
9	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 celebrates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	present	every person on Earth	it				as a holiday	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as holiday=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many communities around the world celebrate it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 communities	amod
2	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 celebrate	nsubj
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 communities	nmod
6	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 celebrate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	present	Many communities around the world	world					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Nobody outside China has ever even heard of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 heard	nsubj
2	outside	outside	ADP	_	3 China	case
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 heard	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	Nobody				ever	of it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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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