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Test 9 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

Your friend says "wǒ hǎo xiànmù nǐ" when you show your new trainers. Is he being nasty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: say, show · To what, where: new trainers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Your friend says "wǒ hǎo xiànmù nǐ" when you show your new trainers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wǒ	punct
5	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	8 nǐ	compound
6	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	5 wǒ	flat:foreign
7	xiànmù	xiànmù	X	Foreign=Yes	5 wǒ	flat:foreign
8	nǐ	nǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 nǐ	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 show	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 show	nsubj
12	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	advcl
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 trainers	nmod:poss
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trainers	amod
15	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 show	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	you	your new trainers					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trainer=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: Is he being nasty?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nasty	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nasty	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 nasty	aux
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 nasty	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, he says he's bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bored	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bored	cop
7	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, he says he hates you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hates	nsubj
6	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate	present	he	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a friendly "I'm so jealous"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 friendly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 friendly	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friendly	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friendly	det
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 jealous	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 jealous	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jealous	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 jealous	advmod
11	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friendly	parataxis
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 jealous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					friendly property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	I					jealous property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it's the nasty jealousy word, he's raging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
7	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raging	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 raging	aux
12	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the nasty jealousy word					tree rules
2	rage	present · progressive	he	the nasty jealousy word not said here					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme

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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