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Test 8 · ★ · School words

You say «wǒ bù zhīdào» to the teacher with a shrug and nothing else. How can you make it softer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: say, make · To what, where: wǒ, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: You say «wǒ bù zhīdào» to the teacher with a shrug and nothing else.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wǒ	punct
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	2 say	obj
5	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
6	zhīdào	zhīdào	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wǒ	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 teacher	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 shrug	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shrug	det
13	shrug	shrug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nothing	cc
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 shrug	conj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 nothing	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	You	wǒ	the teacher			with a shrug	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wǒ=Topic to teacher=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: How can you make it softer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	you	wǒ				soft property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

The options

Option 1

Shout it louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obj
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shout	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	it					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Say xià kè after it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	xià	xià	X	_	1 Say	obj
3	kè	kè	X	Foreign=Yes	2 xià	flat
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Add duìbuqǐ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	duìbuqǐ					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Say it twice fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Say	advmod

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

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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