Test 3 · The body
You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts. What did Lín's mum hear?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, foot, mum · What happens: ask, mean, hurt, hear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 jiǎozi | case |
| 4 | jiǎozi | jiǎozi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 meant | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurts | nsubj |
| 10 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 meant | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | You | for jiǎozi | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present | your foot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 did Lín's mum hear?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 hear | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 3 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Lín | case |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | Lín's mum | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Something about dumplings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 dumplings | case |
| 3 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Something | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Something about your teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 teeth | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Something | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Something about your head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Something | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Something about your name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 name | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Something | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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