Test 6 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!
«tiāo shéng?» you ask, high tone. What did you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: tiāo shéng · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: «tiāo shéng?» you ask, high tone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 shéng | punct |
| 2 | tiāo | tiāo | X | _ | 3 shéng | compound |
| 3 | shéng | shéng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shéng | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 shéng | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tone | punct |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tone | amod |
| 10 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | you | tiāo shéng | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tone=Recipient |
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 did you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Rope soup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soup | compound |
| 2 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
«pick rope», not skip; skipping is tiào shéng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 rope | punct |
| 2 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rope | compound |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shéng | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 rope | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skip | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 skip | advmod |
| 7 | skip | skip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rope | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 skipping | punct |
| 9 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 skip | advcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shéng | cop |
| 11 | tiào | tiào | NOUN | _ | 12 shéng | compound |
| 12 | shéng | shéng | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not skip | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | skip | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | pick rope | tiào shéng | tree rules |
Option 3
Hide and seek, the high-tone version
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seek | cc |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hide | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 version | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 version | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tone | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 high | punct |
| 8 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 version | compound |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | the tone version | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Skipping, exactly right, with the right tone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Skipping | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Skipping | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tone | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tone | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tone | amod |
| 9 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skipping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | gerund | with the right tone; right property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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