Test 6 · ★ · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

why does Lín's mum keep calling me hàixiū, i'm not even shy lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, i · What happens: be, keep, call, not be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Lín	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shy	advcl
7	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 keep	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 calling	obj
9	hàixiū	hàixiū	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 shy	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shy	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 shy	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 shy	advmod
15	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 shy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			why property	tree rules
2	keep	present	Lín's mum			tree rules
3	call	gerund	Lín's mum not said here	me		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme hàixiū=Result
4	not is	present	i		shy property	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.

The options

Option 1

Because she thinks you're ill and pale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 thinks	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pale	cc
8	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	she		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you	ill property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because hàixiū means "hungry child"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	hàixiū	hàixiū	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	hàixiū	hungry child					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic

Option 3

Because hàixiū means "very polite boy"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	hàixiū	hàixiū	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 boy	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 polite	advmod
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	hàixiū	polite boy					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You don't greet her; "āyí hǎo" fixes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 greet	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greet	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 greet	advmod
4	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 greet	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fixes	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 āyí	punct
8	āyí	āyí	X	Foreign=Yes	11 fixes	nsubj
9	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	8 āyí	flat:foreign
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 āyí	punct
11	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greet	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not greet speech: greet	present · do-support	You		her = she				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	fix	present	āyí	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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