Test 1 · ★ · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

my mate said "wǒ é le" with his voice going up and Lín cracked up. why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, voice, Lín · What happens: say, go up, crack up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wǒ	punct
5	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	3 said	ccomp
6	é	é	ADV	_	5 wǒ	flat:foreign
7	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	5 wǒ	flat:foreign
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wǒ	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 voice	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 voice	nmod:poss
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
12	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 voice	acl
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cracked	cc
15	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cracked	nsubj
16	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 cracked	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 said	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my mate	with mate's voice	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with voice=Manner
2	go up	gerund	mate's voice not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	crack up	past	Lín		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

é rising is a rude word you never say at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	compound
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	é rising	a rude word					tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	present	you	a rude word not said here		home			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

é rising is "goose", so he said "I'm a goose"

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	compound
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goose	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 goose	cop
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goose	punct
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goose	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 goose	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 goose	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 goose	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 goose	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 goose	det
15	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 goose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	é rising	goose	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	goose		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	goose	a goose	tree rules

Option 3

é rising means "I'm thirsty"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rising	compound
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thirsty	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 thirsty	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thirsty	cop
7	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thirsty	punct

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

Option 4

Lín was just being mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lín					mean property	tree rules

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