Test 11 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

«shut up and zǒu ba, the park's closing» What does he want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he, park · What happens: shut up, want, close · To what, where: closing

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ba	cc
5	zǒu	zǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	6 ba	compound
6	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 closing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 closing	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 park	case
11	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ba	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 closing	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 want	obj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 want	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 closing	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want	present · do-support	he	the park's closing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	close in a quote		the park		nom closing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Let's go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	's					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	's not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Go away for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 ever	case
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ever=Beneficiary

Option 3

Be quiet and sit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 quiet	cop
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sit	cc
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 quiet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	tree rules
2	sit	present	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stay here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			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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