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Test 2 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué. What did he really say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín · What happens: shout, rise, say · To what, where: xué le · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 le	punct
4	xià	xià	X	_	6 le	dep
5	xué	xué	X	_	6 le	compound
6	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 le	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 le	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 xué	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 xué	det
11	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 xué	amod
12	xué	xué	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Lín	xué le				with a rising xué	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=Topic
2	rise	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 did he really say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Lín						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It's raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raining	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It's windy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 windy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 windy	cop
3	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					windy property	tree rules

Option 3

It's snowing, nothing changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snowing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 snowing	aux
3	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 changes	punct
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 changes	nsubj
6	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 snowing	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	present · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	change	present	nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Something about school ending, not snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 ending	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ending	compound
4	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 snow	advmod
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	conj

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

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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