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Test 5 · Dinner at the friend's house

«ask for hóngshāoròu, it's the best» at a friend's who doesn't eat pork. What's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hóngshāoròu, friend · What happens: ask, be, not eat · To what, where: pork

This is test 5 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: «ask for hóngshāoròu, it's the best» at a friend's who doesn't eat pork.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 hóngshāoròu	case
4	hóngshāoròu	hóngshāoròu	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 best	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 best	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 best	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 best	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 ask	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 best	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 best	obl
14	's	's	PART	_	13 friend	case
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 eat	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 eat	advmod
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 friend	acl:relcl
19	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	imperative	you not said here					for hóngshāoròu	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	hóngshāoròu					at a friend; good property	tree rules
3	not eat	present · do-support	a friend	pork					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Patient

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's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bring some yourself in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Bring	obj
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Bring	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	some		a box		yourself obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent some=Theme

Option 2

Tell them it's rude not to cook it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rude	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cook	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cook	mark
8	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rude	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	it					rude property	tree rules
3	not cook	to-infinitive		it					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Don't ask; they won't cook it, and that's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 cook	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cook	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cook	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cook	advmod
8	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cook	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fine	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fine	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ask	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not cook	future	they	it					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	present	that					fine property	tree rules

Option 4

Ask loudly, they'll make it specially for a guest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	specially	specially	ADV	_	6 make	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 guest	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 guest	det
11	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	future	they	it				for a guest; specially property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for guest=Beneficiary

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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