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Which holiday is she talking about? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hánjià, holiday · **What happens:** be, talk about This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lín's mum: "fàngjià le, but hánjià is short". ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t8:1 # text = Lín's mum: "fàngjià le, but hánjià is short". 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 fàngjià fàngjià NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 hánjià hánjià NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hánjià | | | | | short *property* | 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:* Which holiday is she talking about? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t8:2 # text = Which holiday is she talking about? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk about** | present · progressive | which holiday | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The winter holiday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t8:o1:1 # text = The winter holiday 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The summer holiday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t8:o2:1 # text = The summer holiday 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A birthday ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t8:o3:1 # text = A birthday 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The weekend ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays:t8:o4:1 # text = The weekend 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 weekend weekend NOUN NN 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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