Test 4 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

In a cartoon a boy shouts "wǒ xǐhuan nǐ!" to his best mate in front of the class and everyone giggles. Why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, everyone · What happens: shout, giggle · To what, where: best mate, cartoon

This is test 4 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: In a cartoon a boy shouts "wǒ xǐhuan nǐ!" to his best mate in front of the class and everyone giggles.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouts	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouts	nsubj
6	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wǒ	punct
8	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	6 shouts	ccomp
9	xǐhuan	xǐhuan	X	Foreign=Yes	8 wǒ	flat:foreign
10	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	8 wǒ	flat:foreign
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 nǐ	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wǒ	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 mate	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mate	nmod:poss
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 mate	amod
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouts	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouts	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 class	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 class	det
21	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 front	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giggles	cc
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 giggles	nsubj
24	giggles	giggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shouts	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a boy		boy's best mate	a cartoon		in front of the class	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mate=Recipient
2	giggle	present	everyone						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

It is a swear word in Chinese, a really bad one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	compound
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Chinese	case
7	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	_	5 word	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a swear word		Chinese			tree rules

Option 2

It means "I'm hungry, give me your lunch"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lunch	nmod:poss
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	I			hungry property	tree rules
3	give in a quote	infinitive		your lunch	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lunch=Theme

Option 3

It means "I don't like you"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 like	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 clause=Topic
2	not like in a quote	present · do-support	I	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It sounds like a crush; mates say "good friend"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 crush	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crush	det
5	crush	crush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sounds	parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It					like a crush	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	mates	good friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/t4/