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Test 2 · Dinner at the friend's house

You stick your chopsticks straight up in the rice to free your hands. Why does Granny frown?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, Granny · What happens: stick, frown · To what, where: chopsticks, rice

This is test 2 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 stick your chopsticks straight up in the rice to free your hands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stick	nsubj
2	stick	stick	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	4 chopsticks	nmod:poss
4	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stick	obj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 stick	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 rice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rice	det
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stick	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 free	mark
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hands	amod
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stick	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	You	your chopsticks		the rice			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent chopstick=Theme hand=Destination

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: Why does Granny frown?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 frown	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frown	aux
3	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 frown	nsubj
4	frown	frown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 frown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frown	present · do-support	Granny						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

It means you hate her rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 rice	nmod:poss
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate	present	you	her rice					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rice=Stimulus

Option 2

It means «more please»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 more	punct
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 means	obj
5	please	please	INTJ	_	4 more	discourse
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

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

Option 3

It's a rude word in China, said with hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 China	case
7	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 word	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rude word		China			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						with hands	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with hand=Manner

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It looks like funeral incense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 incense	case
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 incense	compound
5	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					like funeral incense	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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