Test 9 · ★ · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

Which word sits in kě le (thirsty), kěyǐ (may) and kě'ài (cute) — same sound, different jobs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: sit · To what, where: kěyǐ, kě le

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 le	case
5	kě	kě	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 le	compound
6	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 thirsty	punct
8	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 le	amod
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 thirsty	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kěyǐ	punct
11	kěyǐ	kěyǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 may	punct
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 kě'ài	aux
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 may	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kě'ài	cc
16	kě'ài	kě'ài	X	Foreign=Yes	11 kěyǐ	dep
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 cute	punct
18	cute	cute	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kě'ài	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 cute	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 sound	punct
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sound	amod
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 jobs	punct
24	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 jobs	amod
25	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sound	conj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	which word	kěyǐ		kě le		same sound and different jobs obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in le=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

kùn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kùn	kùn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	è	è	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

kě

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kě	kě	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

lèi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lèi	lèi	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

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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