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Test 11 · Dinner at the friend's house

You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's. Ming's dad smiles. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, dad · What happens: hold, smile · To what, where: rice bowl

This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Dinner at the friend's house» 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 hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bowl	nmod:poss
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowl	compound
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	7 close	advmod
7	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hold	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Ming	case
9	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 close	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Ming	case
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	You	your rice bowl				close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme

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: Ming's dad smiles.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ming	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smiles	nsubj
4	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smiles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	present	Ming's dad						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That's good manners at a Chinese table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 manners	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 manners	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manners	amod
4	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 table	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 table	det
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 table	amod
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 manners	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	good manners		a Chinese table			tree rules

Option 2

He wants you to put it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	you					tree rules
2	put down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 3

He thinks you're cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					cold property	tree rules

Option 4

He thinks you're messy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 messy	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 messy	cop
5	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					messy 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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