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Test 2 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a boy who keeps pushing him. What does it mean this time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, boy, tǎoyàn · What happens: yell, not laugh, keep, push, mean · To what, where: tǎoyàn, Lín

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a boy who keeps pushing him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 yells	nsubj
2	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tǎoyàn	punct
4	tǎoyàn	tǎoyàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yells	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tǎoyàn	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tǎoyàn	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 face	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 face	det
9	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yells	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laughing	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 laughing	advmod
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 yells	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boy	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 boy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughing	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 keeps	nsubj
20	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 boy	acl:relcl
21	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 keeps	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pushing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 yells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	Lín	tǎoyàn				with a straight cold face	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tǎoyàn=Topic
2	not laugh	gerund	Lín not said here					at a boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	a boy						tree rules
4	push	gerund	a boy not said here	Lín					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 it mean this time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	tǎoyàn				time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real dislike: "I can't stand you"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dislike	amod
2	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stand	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stand	advmod
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dislike	appos
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stand	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand in a quote	can	I	you					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

"Thank you very much"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 Thank	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

A friendly "stop it, you!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friendly	det
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 you	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stop	parataxis
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive	a friendly	it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4

"I'm bored, let's play"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	parataxis
7	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					bored property	tree rules
2	let in a quote	infinitive		's					tree rules
3	play in a quote	infinitive	's not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «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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