Test 5 · In the playground: come on, your turn!
You snap «kuài diǎnr!» at Ming's dad while he finds his keys. How does it sound?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, Ming, diǎnr · What happens: snap, find, sound · To what, where: kuài diǎnr, keys
This is test 5 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: You snap «kuài diǎnr!» at Ming's dad while he finds his keys.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 snap | nsubj |
| 2 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 diǎnr | punct |
| 4 | kuài | kuài | X | _ | 5 diǎnr | compound |
| 5 | diǎnr | diǎnr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snap | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 diǎnr | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 diǎnr | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dad | case |
| 9 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Ming | case |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snap | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 finds | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finds | nsubj |
| 14 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 snap | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 keys | nmod:poss |
| 16 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 finds | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present | You | kuài diǎnr | at Ming's dad | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location diǎnr=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | present | Ming | Ming's keys | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic |
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: How does it sound?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sound | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present · do-support | diǎnr | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Very polite and kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 polite | advmod |
| 2 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kind | cc |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 polite | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rude to a grown-up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 up | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 up | det |
| 4 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 up | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 6 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rude | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Like «good luck»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 luck | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 luck | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 luck | amod |
| 4 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 luck | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Like «thank you, sir»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | SCONJ | _ | 3 thank | mark |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sir | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 6 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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