--- title: Lín's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba". What's the plan? — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics description: Lín's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba". What's the plan? Test 11 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/t11/) [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/) / [Today, tomorrow, now, later](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/) / t11 # Test 11 · Today, tomorrow, now, later Lín's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba". What's the plan? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad, plan · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** jīntiān · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lín's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba". ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t11:1 # text = Lín's dad says "jīntiān tài wǎn le, míngtiān ba". 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 jīntiān jīntiān X FW Foreign=Yes 4 obj _ _ 7 tài tài X FW Foreign=Yes 9 dep _ _ 8 wǎn wǎn X FW Foreign=Yes 9 compound _ _ 9 le le X NN _ 6 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 míngtiān míngtiān NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lín's dad | jīntiān | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jīntiān=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:* What's the plan? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t11:2 # text = What's the plan? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the plan | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Next week, maybe ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t11:o1:1 # text = Next week, maybe 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Yesterday was too late ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t11:o2:1 # text = Yesterday was too late 1 Yesterday Yesterday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Yesterday | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Too late today; tomorrow then ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t11:o3:1 # text = Too late today; tomorrow then 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Right now, today ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t11:o4:1 # text = Right now, today 1 Right right ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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