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Test 4 · Dinner at the friend's house

At Ming's birthday you cut his noodles to make them easier. What might Granny say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Granny · What happens: cut, make, say · To what, where: noodles, birthday · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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: At Ming's birthday you cut his noodles to make them easier.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 birthday	case
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 birthday	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ming	case
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 noodles	nmod:poss
8	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 make	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	you	Ming's noodles		Ming's birthday			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noodle=Product
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	noodles = noodle				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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 might Granny say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might	Granny						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Cut them smaller, he's only little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cut	obj
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Cut	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cut	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 little	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 little	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cut	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	them = they				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	is	present	he					little property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Long noodles mean long life, don't cut them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 noodles	amod
2	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	parataxis
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	amod
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cut	advmod
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Long noodles	long life					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic
2	not cut	imperative · do-support	you not said here	noodles = noodle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 3

Well done, that's very polite and thoughtful of you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 done	advmod
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 polite	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 polite	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 polite	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 polite	advmod
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 done	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thoughtful	cc
9	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 polite	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 thoughtful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle						well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that					polite property	tree rules
3	be		that not said here					of you	tree rules

Option 4

Noodles are for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 adults	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 adults	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 adults	case
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Noodles					for adults	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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