--- title: Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins. Who is right? — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and s… · tree and pragmatics description: Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins. Who is right? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins. Who is right? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Two kids, stone · **What happens:** argue, win, be This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t10:1 # text = Two kids argue whether stone or cloth wins. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Two kids | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **win** | present | stone or cloth | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:* Who is right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t10:2 # text = Who is right? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Whoever is older ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t10:o1:1 # text = Whoever is older 1 Whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Whoever | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Cloth wins, it wraps the stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t10:o2:1 # text = Cloth wins, it wraps the stone 1 Cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present | Cloth | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wrap** | present | Cloth | the stone | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Stone wins, it tears the cloth ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t10:o3:1 # text = Stone wins, it tears the cloth 1 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present | Stone | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tear** | present | it | the cloth | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cloth=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Neither, it's a draw every time ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t10:o4:1 # text = Neither, it's a draw every time 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 draw draw NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | it | a draw | | | time | neither *property* | 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. 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