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Test 3 · ★★ · The four tones: same sound, different meaning

You stop a stranger with «qǐng wěn» instead of qǐng wèn. Why might the class giggle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: stop, qǐng · To what, where: stranger, wěn, wèn

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: You stop a stranger with «qǐng wěn» instead of qǐng wèn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 qǐng	mark
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 qǐng	punct
7	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
8	wěn	wěn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 qǐng	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 wěn	punct
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 qǐng	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 qǐng	advcl
13	wèn	wèn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 qǐng	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	You	a stranger					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector stranger=Eventuality
2	qǐng in a quote	gerund	You not said here	wěn					tree rules
3	qǐng	gerund	You not said here	wèn					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.

Sentence 2: Why might the class giggle?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giggle	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giggle	compound
5	giggle	giggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

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

You said «may I kiss» instead of «may I ask»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kiss	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kiss	nsubj
6	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 kiss	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ask	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ask	nsubj
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kiss	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kiss in a quote	may	I					instead property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	may	I						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

You said «please sell»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct
4	please	please	INTJ	_	5 sell	discourse
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell in a quote	infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You said «please sleep»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct
4	please	please	INTJ	_	5 sleep	discourse
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep in a quote	infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

You said «good night» in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You				morning; night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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