Test 11 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

«kělè means thirsty in Chinese» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kělè · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: Chinese · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct
2	kělè	kělè	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Chinese	case
6	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 right	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Chinese	punct
8	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 right	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	kělè					thirsty property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				Chinese		right property	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

It means snack

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	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

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

Option 2

Yes, kělè is the word for thirsty, kids say it all day long

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	kělè	kělè	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 thirsty	case
8	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	kělè	the word				for thirsty	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	kids	kělè			day	long property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's cola; its kě only sounds like the word for thirsty

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	3 cola	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cola	cop
3	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sounds	nmod:poss
6	kě	kě	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sounds	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 sounds	advmod
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cola	parataxis
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 word	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 word	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 thirsty	case
13	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	cola					tree rules
2	sound	present	kě					like the word for thirsty	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It means hot water

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	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

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

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