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Test 11 · ★ · School words

A cartoon shows the class greeting the teacher by sitting and mumbling. What does a real Chinese class do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, class, real Chinese class · What happens: show, greet, sit, mumble, do · To what, where: class, teacher

This is test 11 · ★ 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: A cartoon shows the class greeting the teacher by sitting and mumbling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 class	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greeting	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 sitting	mark
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 greeting	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mumbling	cc
12	mumbling	mumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sitting	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	the class					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient
2	greet speech: greet	gerund	the class not said here		the teacher				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme
3	sit	gerund	the class not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mumble speech: other	gerund	the class not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 does a real Chinese class do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 class	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 class	amod
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	a real Chinese class						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say zàijiàn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	zàijiàn	zàijiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	zàijiàn					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zàijiàn=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stand up and sing out lǎoshī hǎo together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stand	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sing	cc
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sing	compound:prt
6	lǎoshī	lǎoshī	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obj
7	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Stand	flat:foreign
8	together	together	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	imperative	you not said here					together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing out speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	lǎoshī					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lǎoshī=Theme

Option 3

Stay silent and bow very low, one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bow	cc
4	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 low	advmod
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bow	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Stay	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here	one by one				silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bow	present	you not said here					low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Clap three times and sit down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 times	compound
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 times	nummod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sit	cc
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 times	acl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	infinitive	Clap three times not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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