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Test 8 · The body

Everyone in the playground laughs when someone says "fàng pì". Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Everyone, someone · What happens: laugh, say, fàng · To what, where: pì · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Everyone in the playground laughs when someone says "fàng pì".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 laughs	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 playground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 playground	det
4	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
5	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 says	advmod
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laughs	advcl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fàng	punct
10	fàng	fàng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 says	ccomp
11	pì	pì	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fàng	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fàng	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Everyone						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fàng in a quote	gerund		pì					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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means a swear

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 swear	det
4	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

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

Option 2

It means a bum smack

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 smack	det
4	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smack	compound
5	smack	smack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It means to fart

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	to	to	PART	_	4 fart	mark
4	fart	fart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp

#	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_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fart not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It means to cry

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	to	to	PART	_	4 cry	mark
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp

#	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_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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