Test 8 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China
a film shows Shaolin monks flying over the roof. real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film, Shaolin monks · What happens: show, fly · To what, where: Shaolin monks, roof
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Shaolin | Shaolin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 monks | compound |
| 5 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 monks | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flying | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a film | Shaolin monks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | Shaolin monks not said here | the roof | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Location |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, they train for 20 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 train | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 train | nsubj |
| 4 | train | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 train | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present | they | year | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, flying is film magic; the training is real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 magic | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 magic | punct |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 magic | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 magic | cop |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 magic | compound |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 real | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 training | det |
| 9 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 real | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 real | cop |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 magic | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | flying film magic | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the training | real property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, Shaolin monks do not exist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 exist | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Shaolin | Shaolin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 monks | compound |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exist | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 exist | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 exist | advmod |
| 7 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exist | present · do-support | Shaolin monks | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, but only at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 night | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 night | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 night | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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