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Test 11 · ★ · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

On a sleepover Lín's cousin cries quietly and says "xiǎng jiā". What's the kind thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, kind thing · What happens: cry, say, xiǎng, be · To what, where: sleepover · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: On a sleepover Lín's cousin cries quietly and says "xiǎng jiā".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 sleepover	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sleepover	det
3	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cries	obl
4	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cousin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Lín	case
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cries	nsubj
7	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 cries	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cries	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 xiǎng	punct
12	xiǎng	xiǎng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 says	ccomp
13	jiā	jiā	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 xiǎng	flat
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 xiǎng	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Lín's cousin			a sleepover		quietly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sleepover=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	Lín's cousin not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	xiǎng in a quote	gerund							tree rules

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 kind thing?

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 thing	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind thing						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Call him a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

Eat his snacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 snacks	nmod:poss
3	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	his snacks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Comfort him; maybe ring his parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comfort	comfort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Comfort	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 ring	punct
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 ring	advmod
5	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Comfort	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comfort	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	ring	infinitive	you not said here	his parents				maybe property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parent=Theme

Option 4

Tell him to shut up and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shut	mark
4	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shut up not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	present	you not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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