Test 4 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

«ming said nǐ zǎo to me and i was already late lol» What could nǐ zǎo also mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ming, i · What happens: say, be, nǐ, mean · To what, where: nǐ zǎo, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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	_	3 said	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	5 zǎo	compound
5	zǎo	zǎo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 late	cc
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 late	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 late	cop
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 late	advmod
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	12 late	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 late	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 nǐ	obj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 nǐ	aux
17	nǐ	nǐ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
18	zǎo	zǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	17 nǐ	dep
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 mean	advmod
20	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 nǐ	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	ming	nǐ zǎo	me		tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	i			late property	tree rules
3	nǐ	could					tree rules
4	mean	infinitive					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You're early (or just morning!)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 early	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 early	cop
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 morning	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 morning	advmod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 early	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You				morning	early property	tree rules

Option 2

You're in big trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 trouble	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trouble	amod
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			big trouble			tree rules

Option 3

You're very late again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 late	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You				again	late property	tree rules

Option 4

You're tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					tired property	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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