Test 3 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

«his mum said děng yíxià an hour ago» What's going on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: say, děng, go on · To what, where: yíxià · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	4 said	punct
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	děng	děng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 said	xcomp
6	yíxià	yíxià	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 děng	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 děng	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 going	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 going	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	his mum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	děng in a quote	gerund	his mum not said here	yíxià	ago property	tree rules
3	go on	present · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

She meant no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 meant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	She	no					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 2

She meant hurry up, get ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meant	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 hurry	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hurry	parataxis
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	past	She		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurry up not said to happen	infinitive	She not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A parent's «wait a moment» can be long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 parent	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 parent	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 long	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 long	cop
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	infinitive					moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	can	a parent					long property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She really did say «wait an hour», word for word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl:unmarked
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 word	case
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	She	word for word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait in a quote	infinitive					hour		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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