Test 5 · The body

you lost a tooth at Lín's house and his granny wants to throw it on the roof. weird or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, granny · What happens: lose, want, throw · To what, where: tooth, house, roof

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tooth	det
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Lín	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wants	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 granny	nmod:poss
11	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 throw	mark
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wants	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 roof	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roof	det
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 weird	punct
20	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lost	parataxis
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 what	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 weird	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	past	you	a tooth	Lín's house	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality
2	want	present	Lín's granny			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lín's granny not said here	tooth	the roof	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on roof=Destination

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

It's a joke, nobody really does that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 joke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 does	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 does	advmod
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	acl:relcl
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules
2	do	present	nobody	a joke					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 2

It means she's cross with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cross	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	cop
5	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					with you; cross property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It's a punishment for losing it at her house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 punishment	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 punishment	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 punishment	det
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 losing	mark
6	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 punishment	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 losing	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a punishment					tree rules
2	lose	gerund	a punishment not said here	punishment		her house			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's a real custom in some Chinese families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 custom	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 custom	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 custom	amod
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 families	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 families	det
8	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 families	amod
9	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 custom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a real custom		some Chinese families			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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