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Test 6 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat underneath. What might Lín's granny say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, granny · What happens: start, flip, get, say · To what, where: Year dinner, fish, meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat underneath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinner	det
3	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Year	compound
4	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dinner	compound
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 flip	mark
9	flip	flip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 start	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flip	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 flip	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meat	det
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	you			the Year dinner			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	flip	to-infinitive	you not said here	the fish					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	the meat				underneath property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus

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 might Lín's granny say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 granny	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Lín	case
5	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might	Lín's granny						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Throw the bones on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bones	det
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	the bones		the floor			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme on floor=Destination

Option 2

Flip it twice for double luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flip	flip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Flip	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Flip	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 luck	case
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 luck	amod
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip	imperative	you not said here	it				for double luck; twice property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Eat the head first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the head				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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

Some families don't flip it, like a boat capsizing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flip	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flip	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 flip	advmod
5	flip	flip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flip	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boat	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 boat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flip	obl
11	capsizing	capsize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 boat	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not flip	present · do-support	some families	it				like a boat	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	capsize	gerund	a boat not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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