--- title: It's Friday. Lín says the sleepover is hòutiān. Which day is it? — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics description: It's Friday. Lín says the sleepover is hòutiān. Which day is it? Test 5 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 right. --- [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/t5/) [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/) / t5 # Test 5 · Today, tomorrow, now, later It's Friday. Lín says the sleepover is hòutiān. Which day is it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** It, Lín, sleepover, day · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Friday, hòutiān · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It's Friday. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:1 # text = It's Friday. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | It | Friday | | | | | tree rules | 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:* Lín says the sleepover is hòutiān. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:2 # text = Lín says the sleepover is hòutiān. 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sleepover sleepover NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 hòutiān hòutiān NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lín | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the sleepover | hòutiān | | | | | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* Which day is it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:3 # text = Which day is it? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | which day | hòutiān | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Sunday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:o1:1 # text = Sunday 1 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Saturday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:o2:1 # text = Saturday 1 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Monday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:o3:1 # text = Monday 1 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Thursday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:21-today-tomorrow-now-later:t5:o4:1 # text = Thursday 1 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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