Test 4 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!

What would happen if a kid shouted «bù wánr le!» in a sulk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: happen, shout · To what, where: wánr le, sulk

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 shouted	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	nsubj
7	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 le	punct
9	bù	bù	ADP	_	11 le	case
10	wánr	wánr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 le	amod
11	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 le	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 le	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sulk	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sulk	det
16	sulk	sulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	a kid	wánr le		a sulk			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone must go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	Everyone					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Often, five minutes later, «wǒ yě yào wánr»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Often	often	ADV	_	5 later	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Often	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 later	obl:unmarked
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 wánr	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 later	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 wǒ	punct
8	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	11 wánr	cc
9	yě	yě	X	Foreign=Yes	8 wǒ	flat:foreign
10	yào	yào	X	Foreign=Yes	8 wǒ	flat:foreign
11	wánr	wánr	PROPN	Typo=Yes	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 wánr	punct

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

Option 3

He wins the game, that's the rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wins	nsubj
2	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wins	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rule	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 rule	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rule	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rule	det
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	He	the game and the rule					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that	the rule					tree rules

Option 4

The game must end for ever and ever, those are the rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 end	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ever	cc
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 ever	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rules	punct
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 rules	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rules	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rules	det
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	must	the game						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	present	those	the rules					tree rules

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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