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Test 10 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

In a cartoon a girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game is ruined. What would be fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: grab, yell, ruin, be · To what, where: ball, cartoon, wǒ le, game

This is test 10 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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 girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game is ruined.

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 grabs	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	nsubj
6	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	obj
9	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 grabs	advcl
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 le	punct
11	gāi	gāi	X	Foreign=Yes	13 le	dep
12	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	13 le	compound
13	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yelling	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 le	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 le	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ruined	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 game	det
18	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ruined	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ruined	aux:pass
20	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grabs	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grabs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	a girl	the ball		a cartoon			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	yell speech: express	gerund	a girl not said here	wǒ le					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=Topic
3	ruin	present · passive		the game					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fair	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	cop
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would						fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Grab harder next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 time	amod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Run away with the ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 ball	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					with the ball; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with ball=Material

Option 3

Shout zǒu! at the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	zǒu	zǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Shout	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Shout	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	zǒu		the others			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zǒu=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hand up, «gāi wǒ le», and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hand	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 le	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 gāi	punct
5	gāi	gāi	X	Foreign=Yes	7 le	dep
6	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	5 gāi	flat:foreign
7	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hand	parataxis
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 le	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wait	cc
11	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand up	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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