Test 4 · In the playground: come on, your turn!
A kid pushes in at the tuck shop. What can you fairly say?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, you · What happens: push in, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: A kid pushes in at the tuck shop.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | nsubj |
| 3 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 pushes | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 shop | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shop | det |
| 7 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shop | compound |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push in | present | a kid | at the tuck shop | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at shop=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 can you fairly say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | you | fairly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
bié chā duì!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bié | bié | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chā | compound |
| 2 | chā | chā | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | duì | duì | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chā | dep |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 chā | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
kuài lái!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kuài | kuài | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | lái | lái | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 kuài | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 kuài | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
jiāyóu!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jiāyóu | jiāyóu | NOUN | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 jiāyóu | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
gāi wǒ le!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gāi | gāi | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 le | flat:foreign |
| 2 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 gāi | flat:foreign |
| 3 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 le | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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