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Test 8 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

Ming says «wán» not «wánr». Is he wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wán · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Ming says «wán» not «wánr».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wán	punct
4	wán	wán	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wán	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wánr	advmod
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 wánr	punct
8	wánr	wán	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 says	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 wánr	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ming	wán				wán property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wán=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: Is he wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ming					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, he forgot half the word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 word	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	half word					tree rules

Option 2

No, wán means sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wán	wán	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wán	sleep					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic

Option 3

Yes, wán on its own means no, so it's wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wán	punct
3	wán	wán	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wán	nmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 means	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wrong	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 wrong	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wrong	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wrong	cop
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wán on wán's own						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	is	present	wán					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, southern speakers say wán

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speakers	amod
4	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wán	wán	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	southern speakers	wán					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wán=Topic

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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