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Test 2 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

Lín says he's coming "mǎshàng" from his game. Twenty minutes later he's still playing. What's the joke?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, joke · What happens: say, come, play, be · To what, where: mǎshàng, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 he's coming "mǎshàng" from his game.

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 coming	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mǎshàng	punct
7	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mǎshàng	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 game	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 game	nmod:poss
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present · progressive	Lín	mǎshàng		Lín's game			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from game=Initial_Location

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: Twenty minutes later he's still playing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 playing	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 playing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 playing	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 playing	advmod
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 playing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	Lín				still	late property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What's the joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the joke						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He meant "yesterday", by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yesterday	punct
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meant	obl:unmarked
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yesterday	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mistake	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mistake	case
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	He				yesterday	by mistake	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

mǎshàng really means twenty minutes exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	1 mǎshàng	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 means	obj
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mǎshàng	gerund							tree rules
2	mean	present	mǎshàng				minute	exactly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

mǎshàng means "never"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 never	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 means	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	mǎshàng						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent never=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

From a kid at a screen, mǎshàng stretches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 kid	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 screen	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 screen	det
6	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kid	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stretches	punct
8	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stretches	compound
9	stretches	stretch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kid	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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