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Test 2 · ★★ · The four tones: same sound, different meaning

«yawn, wǒ yào shuǐjiǎo» you tell Ming's mum at 10 pm. What might she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Ming · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: yawn, mum, 10 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: «yawn, wǒ yào shuǐjiǎo» you tell Ming's mum at 10 pm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 yawn	punct
2	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wǒ	punct
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	2 yawn	conj
5	yào	yào	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
6	shuǐjiǎo	shuǐjiǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 yawn	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mum	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Ming	case
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 10	case
14	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 tell	obl
15	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 10	nmod:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	you	yawn	Ming's mum	10 pm			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

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 she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	might	Ming						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Cheerfully offer you dumplings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	2 offer	advmod
2	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 offer	iobj
4	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 offer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here	dumplings	you			cheerfully property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal dumpling=Theme

Option 2

Phone your parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Phone	conj

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

Option 3

Give you a glass of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glass	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a glass of water	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient glass=Theme

Option 4

Put you to bed straight away, it's late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 late	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 late	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 late	cop
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Put	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		you			to bed; away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal
2	is	present	bed					late property	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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