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Test 4 · ★★ · The four tones: same sound, different meaning

Counting 8, 9, 10 you say «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!». Why does Ming roll on the floor?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Ming · What happens: count, say, roll · To what, where: 8, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Counting 8, 9, 10 you say «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 9	punct
4	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 8	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 10	punct
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 8	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Counting	parataxis
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 bā	punct
10	bā	bā	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jiǔ	punct
12	jiǔ	jiǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bā	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shǐ	punct
14	shǐ	shǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bā	appos
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 shǐ	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 bā	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Counting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	you	8					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bā=Topic

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 does Ming roll on the floor?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 roll	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roll	aux
3	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 roll	nsubj
4	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 roll	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present · do-support	Ming			the floor			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory

The options

Option 1

You counted backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 counted	nsubj
2	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 counted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	You					backwards property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

shǐ is a rude word for teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shǐ	shǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 teachers	case
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	shǐ	a rude word				for teachers	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dipping shǐ means poo, not ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dipping	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	shǐ	shǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dipping	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ten	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 ten	advmod
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	gerund		shǐ					vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shǐ=Theme
2	mean	present	Dipping	poo				ten obl	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Topic

Option 4

shǐ means horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shǐ	shǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	shǐ	horse					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

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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