Test 9 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!
In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass. What would be more polite?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: clink, be · To what, where: juice, cartoon
This is test 9 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clinks | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clinks | nsubj |
| 6 | clinks | clink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 juice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clinks | obj |
| 9 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 clinks | advmod |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 11 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 glass | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Grandad | case |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clinks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clink | present | a kid | kid's juice | a cartoon | above Grandad's glass; high property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location juice=Theme |
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 would be more polite?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 polite | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 polite | advmod |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 polite | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | polite property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Hold it even higher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hold | obj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 higher | advmod |
| 4 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Hold | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | it | high property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Not drink at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 drink | advmod |
| 2 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 drink | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drink | imperative | you not said here | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Pour it on the table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pour | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pour | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | imperative | you not said here | it | the table | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Hold it a little lower than Grandad's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hold | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lower | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Hold | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Grandad | case |
| 7 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lower | obl |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Grandad | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | it | low property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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