Test 1 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

lol Lín's a Rat in the zodiac, that's an insult innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, that · What happens: be · To what, where: Rat, zodiac, insult innit

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 Rat	discourse
2	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Rat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 zodiac	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zodiac	det
8	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 innit	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 innit	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 innit	det
13	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 innit	compound
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Rat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lín	a Rat and a insult innit		the zodiac			tree rules
2	is a	present	that	a insult innit					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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, rats are always an insult, everyone knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 insult	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insult	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 insult	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 insult	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 insult	det
7	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 insult	punct
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 insult	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	rats	a insult				always property	tree rules
2	know	present	everyone	a insult not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer insult=Stimulus

Option 2

No, Rat means "boss"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 boss	punct
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 boss	punct

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

Option 3

Yes, it means he's dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dirty	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dirty	cop
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp

#	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	he					dirty property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the Rat is clever and comes first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 clever	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 comes	cc
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	conj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Rat					clever property	tree rules
2	come	present	the Rat not said here					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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