Test 3 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!
You lose and shout «nǐ zuòbì!» though nobody cheated. What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, nobody, problem · What happens: lose, shout, cheat, be · To what, where: nǐ zuòbì
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: You lose and shout «nǐ zuòbì!» though nobody cheated.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shout | cc |
| 4 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lose | conj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 zuòbì | punct |
| 6 | nǐ | nǐ | X | _ | 7 zuòbì | compound |
| 7 | zuòbì | zuòbì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shout | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 cheated | mark |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 cheated | nsubj |
| 12 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lose | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | You | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | You not said here | nǐ zuòbì | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zuòbì=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cheat | past | nobody | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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 the problem?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Accusing cheating just because you lost isn't fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accusing | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 fair | csubj |
| 2 | cheating | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Accusing | ccomp |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 lost | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cheating | advcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fair | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 fair | advmod |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | gerund | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cheat | gerund | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lose | past | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | Accusing | fair property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
zuòbì means «well done»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zuòbì | zuòbì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | zuòbì | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | participle | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nothing, it's polite and everyone says it after losing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 polite | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | cop |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 losing | mark |
| 11 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 says | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | everyone | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | everyone not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It means you won the game after all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 won | nsubj |
| 4 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 won | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 won | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | win | past | you | the game | after all | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
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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