Test 9 · In the playground: come on, your turn!
A lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr». What's a kind answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lonely kid, kind answer · What happens: stand, say, be · To what, where: edge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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 lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 says | cc |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stands | conj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 wǒ | punct |
| 11 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 wánr | nsubj |
| 12 | yě | yě | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 13 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 14 | wánr | wán | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 says | xcomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 wánr | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a lonely kid | the edge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a lonely kid not said here | wán property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What's a kind answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a kind answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
lái ba!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lái | lái | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 ba | amod |
| 2 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ba | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
zǒu!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zǒu | zǒu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 zǒu | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
děng yíxià, for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | děng | děng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | yíxià | yíxià | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 děng | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 yíxià | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 ever | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 1 děng | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | děng | gerund | yíxià | tree rules |
Option 4
bù xíng!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bù | bù | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 xíng | amod |
| 2 | xíng | xíng | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 xíng | 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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