Test 7 · Dinner at the friend's house

«dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: dare, eat, be · To what, where: ya, chòu dòufu, it

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct
2	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 dare	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dare	xcomp
6	chòu	chòu	X	Foreign=Yes	7 dòufu	flat:foreign
7	dòufu	dòufu	X	Foreign=Yes	5 eat	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 it	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 it	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dare	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dare in a quote	imperative	you not said here	ya	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	chòu dòufu	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dòufu=Patient
3	is a	present		it	tree rules

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.

The options

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

Stinky tofu, which really smells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stinky	stinky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tofu	amod
2	tofu	tofu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smells	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smells	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 smells	advmod
6	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tofu	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Stinky tofu						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Rotten eggs kept for a hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 eggs	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		Rotten eggs not said here			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Burnt rice from the bottom of the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rice	amod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bottom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rice	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 pot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bottom	nmod

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

Option 4

Spicy noodles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spicy	spicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 noodles	amod
2	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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