Test 5 · Happy, angry, bored, scared
Lín is cross after losing at cards. What's the first step to making up?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, first step · What happens: be, lose, make up · To what, where: cards
This is test 5 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 is cross after losing at cards.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cross | cop |
| 3 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 losing | mark |
| 5 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cross | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 cards | case |
| 7 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 losing | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lín | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | Lín not said here | cards | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at card=Eventuality |
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's the first step to making up?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 step | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 step | amod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 making | mark |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 step | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 making | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the first step | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make up | gerund | the first step not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Say "nǐ zhēn wúliáo"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wúliáo | punct |
| 3 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 wúliáo | dep |
| 4 | zhēn | zhēn | X | _ | 5 wúliáo | compound |
| 5 | wúliáo | wúliáo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wúliáo | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | zhēn wúliáo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wúliáo=Topic |
Option 2
Say "qì sǐ wǒ le"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 qì | punct |
| 3 | qì | qì | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 4 | sǐ | sǐ | ADV | _ | 3 qì | advmod |
| 5 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 le | compound |
| 6 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 qì | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 qì | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | qì in a quote | past | wǒ le | sǐ property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Say "bié shēngqì" and smile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bié | punct |
| 3 | bié | bié | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 4 | shēngqì | shēngqì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bié | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bié | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 smile | cc |
| 7 | smile | smile | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 bié | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bié in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | shēngqì | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smile | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Say "hǎo xiànmù"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 xiànmù | punct |
| 3 | hǎo | hǎo | X | _ | 4 xiànmù | compound |
| 4 | xiànmù | xiànmù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 xiànmù | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | hǎo xiànmù | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent xiànmù=Topic |
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