Test 1 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

«nee HOW means how are you, like english how» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 nee	punct
2	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	advcl
3	HOW	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 means	advmod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 you	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 you	cop
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 english	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 english	case
10	english	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 »	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 english	punct
13	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 english	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	you		tree rules
3	is	present		right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, nǐ hǎo is hello, literally «you good»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 nǐ	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nǐ	punct
3	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
4	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	3 nǐ	flat:foreign
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hello	cop
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	3 nǐ	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
8	literally	literally	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 good	nsubj
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nǐ	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it means goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	goodbye					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 3

Yes, it asks how you came here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 asks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	ccomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	it						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	you			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, hǎo is just the English word «how»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	8 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 word	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 how	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 word	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 how	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	hǎo	the English word					tree rules

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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