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Test 11 · The body

Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud. What does his granny say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ears, teacher, granny · What happens: turn, read, say · To what, where: poem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 18 «The body» 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: Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lín	case
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reads	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reads	nsubj
9	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 poem	nmod:poss
11	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reads	obj
12	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	9 reads	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Lín's ears					red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	read	present	the teacher	teacher's poem				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic

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 does his granny say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 granny	nmod:poss
4	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	teacher's granny						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

nǐ de tóu téng le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	4 téng	advmod
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat
3	tóu	tóu	X	_	1 nǐ	flat:foreign
4	téng	téng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 téng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	téng	gerund		le					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nǐ de ěrduo hóng le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	3 ěrduo	amod
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat
3	ěrduo	ěrduo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	hóng	hóng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ěrduo	acl
5	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hóng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hóng	gerund	nǐ ěrduo not said here	le					tree rules

Option 3

nǐ de bízi hóng le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat
3	bízi	bízi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat:foreign
4	hóng	hóng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 nǐ	acl
5	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hóng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hóng	gerund		le					tree rules

Option 4

nǐ de pìgu téng le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	4 téng	advmod
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat
3	pìgu	pìgu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat:foreign
4	téng	téng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 téng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	téng	gerund		le					tree rules

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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