Test 8 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

«ming shared his White Rabbit sweets with me» What does sharing língshí show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ming · What happens: share, língshí · To what, where: White Rabbit sweets, show

This is test 8 · ★ 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 shared	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shared	nsubj
3	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sweets	nmod:poss
5	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweets	amod
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sweets	compound
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shared	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shared	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 shared	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 sharing	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sharing	aux
13	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shared	advcl
14	língshí	língshí	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sharing	xcomp
15	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 língshí	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share in a quote	past	ming	ming's White Rabbit sweets	with me	tree rules
2	share	present · do-support				tree rules
3	língshí	infinitive		show		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

That he wants money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wants	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	That	money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme

Option 2

That they're out of date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 date	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 date	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 date	cop
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 date	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 date	case
6	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

That he doesn't like them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 like	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	he	That					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Friendship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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