Test 12 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!
«ok fine, xièxie, gòu le» you say to Granny. What did you say?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: xièxie, you · What happens: say · To what, where: Granny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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: «ok fine, xièxie, gòu le» you say to Granny.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
| 2 | ok | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fine | amod |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 xièxie | punct |
| 5 | xièxie | xièxie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 le | punct |
| 7 | gòu | gòu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 le | compound |
| 8 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 xièxie | appos |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 le | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Granny | case |
| 13 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | xièxie | Granny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to granny=Recipient |
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 did you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 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 | past · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Thanks, that's enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thanks | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 enough | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Thanks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | enough property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It's too spicy
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 | 4 spicy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spicy | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 spicy | advmod |
| 4 | spicy | spicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | spicy property | tree rules |
Option 3
Thanks, more please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Thanks | conj |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 Thanks | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cheers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheers | cheer | 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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