Test 9 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!
«wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes. What might friends call him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wǒ, friends · What happens: say, call · To what, where: wǒ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: «wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 wǒ | punct |
| 2 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 says | nsubj |
| 3 | yíng | yíng | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 4 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 5 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 6 | yíng | yíng | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 7 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 8 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 9 | yíng | yíng | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 10 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 11 | !!! | !!! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wǒ | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 minutes | case |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 minutes | nummod |
| 17 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 says | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | wǒ | minute | 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 might friends call him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | might | friends | wǒ | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
píngjú
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | píngjú | píngjú | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
déyì, smug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | déyì | déyì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smug | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 déyì | punct |
| 3 | smug | smug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
lǎoyīng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lǎoyīng | lǎoyīng | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
mùtourén
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mùtourén | mùtourén | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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