--- title: A British card says 4/5. Lín's dad reads it the Chinese way, month f… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: A British card says 4/5. Lín's dad reads it the Chinese way, month first. Which date is "sì yuè wǔ hào"? 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Which date is "sì yuè wǔ hào"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** British card, dad, date · **What happens:** say, read, be · **To what, where:** 4/5, it, sì · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A British card says 4/5. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:1 # text = A British card says 4/5. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 4/5 4/5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a British card | 4/5 | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 4/5=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:* Lín's dad reads it the Chinese way, month first. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:2 # text = Lín's dad reads it the Chinese way, month first. 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 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | Lín's dad | it | | | | the Chinese way and month *obl:unmarked* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | *Sentence 3:* Which date is "sì yuè wǔ hào"? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:3 # text = Which date is "sì yuè wǔ hào"? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sì sì NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 yuè yuè X FW Foreign=Yes 8 compound _ _ 7 wǔ wǔ NUM CD _ 8 nummod _ _ 8 hào hào NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | which date | sì | | | | yuè wǔ hào *nmod* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5 May ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:o1:1 # text = 5 May 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 4 May ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:o2:1 # text = 4 May 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 4 April ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:o3:1 # text = 4 April 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 5 April ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t7:o4:1 # text = 5 April 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod: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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