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Test 2 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

You arrive at Ming's for a sleepover at 7 in the evening and say wǎn'ān to his mum. What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: arrive, say, go · To what, where: Ming, wǎn'ān, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: You arrive at Ming's for a sleepover at 7 in the evening and say wǎn'ān to his mum.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 arrive	nsubj
2	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Ming	case
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 arrive	obl
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Ming	case
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 sleepover	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sleepover	det
8	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrive	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 7	case
10	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 arrive	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 7	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arrive	conj
16	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 mum	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mum	nmod:poss
19	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	You			Ming		for a sleepover; at 7 in the evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	You not said here	wǎn'ān	Ming's mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wǎn'ān=Topic to mum=Recipient

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: What went wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing, wǎn'ān is the usual good evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wǎn'ān	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 evening	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 evening	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evening	amod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evening	amod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing wǎn'ān	the usual good evening					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

wǎn'ān means «I'm hungry»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wǎn'ān						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

wǎn'ān is only for babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 babies	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 babies	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 babies	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 babies	case
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	wǎn'ān					for babies	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wǎn'ān is good night, for bedtime, not a hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 night	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bedtime	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 bedtime	case
7	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hello	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hello	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hello	det
11	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	wǎn'ān	good night and bedtime and a hello					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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