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Test 5 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

Lín says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day. What did he say instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín · What happens: say, fall · To what, where: hǎo lèng · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lèng	punct
4	hǎo	hǎo	X	_	5 lèng	compound
5	lèng	lèng	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lèng	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tone	det
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tone	amod
10	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tone	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín	hǎo lèng				with a falling tone on a cold day	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent lèng=Theme with tone=Manner
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What did he say instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's so cold, the right way to say it

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	4 cold	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Something about being dazed

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	SCONJ	_	4 dazed	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dazed	aux:pass
4	dazed	daze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Something	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	daze	gerund · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 3

It's windy and wet outside

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
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wet	cc
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 windy	conj
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 wet	advmod

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

Option 4

It's so hot

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	4 hot	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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