Test 1 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

my friend says "xià yú le" with a rising yú means it's raining. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, it · What happens: say, rise, mean, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 le	punct
5	xià	xià	X	_	7 le	dep
6	yú	yú	X	_	7 le	compound
7	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 le	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 yú	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 yú	det
11	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 yú	amod
12	yú	yú	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obl
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 raining	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 raining	aux
16	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 means	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 raining	punct
18	right	right	ADV	_	16 raining	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my friend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	rise	gerund			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present		with a rising yú	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rain	present · progressive	it	right property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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.

The options

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

No, rising yú is fish; rain is yǔ, dipping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fish	amod
4	yú	yú	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rising	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 yǔ	punct
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yǔ	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 yǔ	cop
10	yǔ	yǔ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dipping	punct
12	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 yǔ	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund		yú		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yú=Theme
2	is a	present		rising fish		tree rules
3	is	present	rain	rising fish not said here	yǔ property	tree rules
4	dip	gerund	rain not said here			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, it means it's snowing hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snowing	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 snowing	aux
7	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 means	ccomp
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 snowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	snow	present · progressive	it					hard property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3

Yes, but only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 winter	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, both tones mean rain, it's the same word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tones	det
4	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 word	discourse
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 word	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 word	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	both tones	rain					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Topic
2	is a	present	rain	the same word					tree rules

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