Test 1 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!
«the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend. What's the tiny slip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hǎo chī, tiny slip · What happens: say, be · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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: «the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 chī | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soup | det |
| 3 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chī | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 soup | case |
| 5 | hǎo | hǎo | X | _ | 6 chī | compound |
| 6 | chī | chī | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 chī | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the soup's hǎo chī | your friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
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 the tiny slip?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slip | det |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slip | amod |
| 5 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tiny slip | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
hǎo chī means disgusting, so rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hǎo | hǎo | X | _ | 2 chī | compound |
| 2 | chī | chī | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | disgusting | disgusting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rude | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 rude | advmod |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | hǎo chī | disgusting property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nothing, everyone says it about soup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 says | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 soup | case |
| 7 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Nothing | it | about soup | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Soups and drinks often get hǎo hē
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soups | soup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 drinks | cc |
| 3 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soups | conj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hǎo | hǎo | X | _ | 7 hē | compound |
| 7 | hē | hē | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Soups and drinks | hǎo hē | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hē=Stimulus |
Option 4
hǎo chī is only for sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hǎo | hǎo | X | _ | 2 chī | compound |
| 2 | chī | chī | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweets | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sweets | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sweets | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sweets | case |
| 6 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hǎo chī | for sweets | 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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