Test 10 · ★ · School words
«oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk. What's an honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid, honest answer · What happens: tīng, lose, be · To what, where: dǒng ma, You, fast talk
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 15 «School words» 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: «oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 kid | punct |
| 2 | oi | oi | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 kid | dep |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kid | amod |
| 4 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deaf | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tīng | punct |
| 6 | tīng | tīng | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kid | acl |
| 7 | dǒng | dǒng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ma | compound |
| 8 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tīng | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kid | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 deaf | nsubj |
| 11 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 deaf | conj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 talk | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 talk | det |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 talk | amod |
| 21 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 deaf | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tīng in a quote | gerund | new kid not said here | dǒng ma | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · passive | You | the fast talk | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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 an honest answer?
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 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a honest answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
yìbǎi fēn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yìbǎi | yìbǎi | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | fēn | fēn | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 yìbǎi | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
tīng bù dǒng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tīng | tīng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | bù | bù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dǒng | compound |
| 3 | dǒng | dǒng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tīng | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tīng | gerund | bù dǒng | tree rules |
Option 3
xià kè
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xià | xià | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | kè | kè | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 xià | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
lǎoshī hǎo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lǎoshī | lǎoshī | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 lǎoshī | flat:foreign |
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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