--- title: Which two words make "when?"? — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Which two words make "when?"? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/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/) / [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays Which two words make "when?"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two words · **What happens:** make This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t11:1 # text = Which two words make "when?"? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | which two words | | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} shí fēnzhōng ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t11:o1:1 # text = shí fēnzhōng 1 shí shí X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 fēnzhōng fēnzhōng NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} zhōumò ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t11:o2:1 # text = zhōumò 1 zhōumò zhōumò PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} jǐ diǎn ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t11:o3:1 # text = jǐ diǎn 1 jǐ jǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 2 compound _ _ 2 diǎn diǎn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} shénme shíhou ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t11:o4:1 # text = shénme shíhou 1 shénme shénme NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 shíhou shíhou NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 1 dep _ _ ``` 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/t10/) - next →: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/e1/) - ↑ back to [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/)