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Test 11 · ★★ · The four tones: same sound, different meaning

Your friends make you say māma mà mǎ ma? fast and laugh. What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friends, you · What happens: make, say, laugh, go on · To what, where: you, māma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 2 «The four tones: same sound, different meaning» 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: Your friends make you say māma mà mǎ ma? fast and laugh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	māma	māma	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	obj
7	mà	mà	X	Foreign=Yes	9 ma	dep
8	mǎ	mǎ	X	_	9 ma	compound
9	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 make	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laugh	cc
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Your friends	you				fast property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	māma					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent māma=Topic
3	laugh	present	Your friends not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 is going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A friendly tone game, not mockery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 game	amod
3	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	compound
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mockery	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mockery	advmod
7	mockery	mockery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	appos

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

Option 2

They are being cruel and you should leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cruel	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cruel	cop
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leave	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 leave	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cruel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					cruel property	tree rules
2	leave	should	you						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They want you to scold a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scold	mark
5	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	you					tree rules
2	scold not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a horse					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 4

It is a rude rhyme about mums

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 rhyme	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rhyme	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rhyme	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhyme	amod
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 mums	case
7	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rhyme	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rude rhyme				about mums	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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