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Test 4 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

You want to give Lín's grandad an umbrella for his birthday. Why might Lín's mum suggest something else?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, mum · What happens: want, give, suggest · To what, where: umbrella, grandad, something

This is test 4 · ★ 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: You want to give Lín's grandad an umbrella for his birthday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grandad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Lín	case
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 umbrella	det
9	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 birthday	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 birthday	nmod:poss
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	a umbrella	Lín's grandad			for Lín's birthday	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient umbrella=Theme for birthday=Asset

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 Lín's mum suggest something else?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 suggest	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 suggest	aux
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Lín	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suggest	nsubj
6	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 suggest	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 something	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	might	Lín's mum	something					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic

The options

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

sǎn sounds like sàn, to split up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sǎn	sǎn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 sàn	case
4	sàn	sàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 split	mark
7	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sounds	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 split	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	sǎn					like sàn	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	split up	to-infinitive	sǎn not said here						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Grandads never use them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandads	grandad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	present	Grandads	them = they					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Umbrellas are too expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 expensive	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 expensive	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 expensive	advmod
4	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Umbrellas mean "go away" in Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mean	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Chinese	case
8	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Umbrellas						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go away not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Umbrellas not said here			Chinese		away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chinese=Location

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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