Test 1 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

my mate says "qì sǐ wǒ le" means someone actually died. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, qì, wǒ le, someone · What happens: say, le, mean, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 16 «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 le	punct
5	qì	qì	X	Foreign=Yes	8 le	nsubj
6	sǐ	sǐ	ADV	_	8 le	advmod
7	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	8 le	compound
8	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 le	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 died	nsubj
12	actually	actually	ADV	_	13 died	advmod
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 means	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	10 means	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	le in a quote		qì	sǐ property	tree rules
3	mean	present	wǒ le		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	die	past	someone	actually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, it means someone in the house has died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 died	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 someone	nmod
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 died	aux
10	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	present · perfect	someone						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a dramatic "it's driving me mad"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 dramatic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dramatic	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dramatic	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dramatic	det
6	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 driving	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 driving	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 driving	aux
10	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dramatic	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 driving	obj
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 driving	xcomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 driving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dramatic property	tree rules
2	drive in a quote	present · progressive	it	me				mad property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, it means "I'm dead tired"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tired	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tired	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tired	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tired	amod
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

No, it means "I'm so happy"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 happy	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 happy	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 happy	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 happy	advmod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I					happy property	tree rules

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