Test 2 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!

«ming moved after mùtourén but says he didn't, he's shuǎlài-ing» If he really moved, is shuǎlài fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ming · What happens: move, say, not do, be · To what, where: shuǎlài ing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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	_	3 moved	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 mùtourén	case
5	mùtourén	mùtourén	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 says	cc
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 did	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ing	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ing	cop
14	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ing	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shuǎlài	punct
16	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 ing	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	21 moved	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moved	nsubj
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 moved	advmod
21	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fair	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fair	cop
24	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	Foreign=Yes	25 fair	advmod
25	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moved	conj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	past	ming		after mùtourén		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	ming not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do in a quote	past	ming				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	ming	shuǎlài ing			tree rules
5	move a condition, not said to happen	past	ming				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	ming not said here			fair property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

No, shuǎlài means winning the game fair and square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	Foreign=Yes	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	winning	win	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winning	obj
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winning	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 square	cc
10	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	shuǎlài						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win not said to happen	gerund	shuǎlài not said here	the game				fair property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, but only at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 school	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 school	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 school	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

No, shuǎlài is a hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 shuǎlài	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	Foreign=Yes	6 hello	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hello	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hello	det
6	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	shuǎlài	a hello					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, refusing to accept being caught is shuǎlài

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 refusing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 accept	mark
5	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refusing	xcomp
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 caught	aux:pass
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 accept	xcomp
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shuǎlài	cop
9	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	Foreign=Yes	3 refusing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	refuse	gerund	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not accept	to-infinitive	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	catch	gerund · passive	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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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