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title: ★★★ Isla from Glasgow says «aye, Sunday's xīngqīqī, day seven, ken».… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number p… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

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★★★ Isla from Glasgow says «aye, Sunday's xīngqīqī, day seven, ken». What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** say, ken, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Isla from Glasgow says «aye, Sunday's xīngqīqī, day seven, ken».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t3:1
# text = ★★★ Isla from Glasgow says «aye, Sunday's xīngqīqī, day seven, ken».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	xīngqīqī	xīngqīqī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	ken	ken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ from Glasgow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ken** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t3:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sunday is day zero: xīngqīlíng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t3:o1:1
# text = Sunday is day zero: xīngqīlíng
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	xīngqīlíng	xīngqīlíng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Sunday day and xīngqīlíng |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sunday has no number: xīngqītiān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t3:o2:1
# text = Sunday has no number: xīngqītiān
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	xīngqītiān	xīngqītiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sunday | no number and xīngqītiān |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all, she's dead right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t3:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all, she's dead right
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | dead, right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sunday is day one: xīngqīyī

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t3:o4:1
# text = Sunday is day one: xīngqīyī
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	xīngqīyī	xīngqīyī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Sunday day and xīngqīyī |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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.

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