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Test 9 · ★★ · The four tones: same sound, different meaning

A shopkeeper says wǒ mài. What is she doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shopkeeper · What happens: say, do · To what, where: wǒ · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A shopkeeper says wǒ mài.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shopkeeper	det
2	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	3 says	obj
5	mài	mài	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a shopkeeper	wǒ					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wǒ=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: What is she doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Scolding you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Scolding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	gerund		you					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

Counting money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		money					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Selling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Buying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund							vn accept-77.1 «NP V how 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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