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Test 4 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

Lín says "tài niú le!" when you do a kickflip. Is he calling you a cow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, you · What happens: say, do, call · To what, where: kickflip, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Lín says "tài niú le!" when you do a kickflip.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 le	punct
4	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	6 le	dep
5	niú	niú	X	Foreign=Yes	6 le	flat:foreign
6	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 le	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 le	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 do	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kickflip	det
13	kickflip	kickflip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	you	a kickflip					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kickflip=Eventuality

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: Is he calling you a cow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calling	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calling	nsubj
3	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 calling	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 calling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive	Lín	you					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme cow=Result

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, it means "too slow"

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	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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 slow	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 slow	advmod
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 slow	punct

#	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

Option 2

Yes, it means "you're fat"

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fat	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fat	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fat	cop
8	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fat	punct

#	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 in a quote	present	you					fat property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it means "you're a cow"

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cow	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 cow	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cow	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cow	punct

#	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 a in a quote	present	you	a cow					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's slang for "awesome!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 slang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slang	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slang	cop
5	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 awesome	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 awesome	punct
8	awesome	awesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slang	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 slang	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 slang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	slang				for awesome	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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