Test 6 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate
You say zàijiàn with your voice going up at the end. How does it sound?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, voice, zàijiàn · What happens: say, go up, sound · To what, where: zàijiàn, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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 say zàijiàn with your voice going up at the end.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | zàijiàn | zàijiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obl |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 voice | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 going | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | You | zàijiàn | with your voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent zàijiàn=Theme with voice=Manner | |||
| 2 | go up | gerund | your voice not said here | at the end | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: How does it sound?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sound | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present · do-support | zàijiàn | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Like a very polite goodbye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 5 goodbye | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 goodbye | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 polite | advmod |
| 4 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goodbye | amod |
| 5 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Like a question, «goodbye?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 question | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 goodbye | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 goodbye | punct |
| 6 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 question | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 question | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Like you are cross with them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | SCONJ | _ | 4 cross | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cross | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cross | cop |
| 4 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cross | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | with them = they; cross property | tree rules |
Option 4
Like «good morning»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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