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 | to whom | where | when | other | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/t11/