Test 8 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear
ugh it's chucking it down and mum says "bié chūqù le". what's she on about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, mum · What happens: chuck down, say, be · To what, where: it, bié chūqù le · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 4 chucking | discourse |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chucking | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chucking | aux |
| 4 | chucking | chuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chucking | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 chucking | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 says | cc |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chucking | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 le | punct |
| 11 | bié | bié | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 le | amod |
| 12 | chūqù | chūqù | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 le | compound |
| 13 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 le | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chucking | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 chucking | obl |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | cop |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 on | nsubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 what | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 chucking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck down | present · progressive | it | it | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | mum | bié chūqù le | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent le=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | about property | tree rules |
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
Don't go out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go out | imperative · do-support | you not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Go out and play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 play | cc |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | imperative | you not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Shut the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | imperative | you not said here | the window | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
Option 4
Take the dog out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Take | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | imperative | you not said here | the dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
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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