Test 1 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings
Lín's mate calls a kid in Year 2 who can't read yet "bèndàn" in front of everyone. Friendly teasing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: call, not read · To what, where: kid, bèndàn, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 23 «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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's mate calls a kid in Year 2 who can't read yet "bèndàn" in front of everyone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | obl |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Year | flat |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 read | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 read | advmod |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 calls | parataxis |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 read | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bèndàn | punct |
| 16 | bèndàn | bèndàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bèndàn | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 everyone | case |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 front | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Lín's mate | a kid | in Year | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not read | can | bèndàn | front of everyone | yet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bèndàn=Topic |
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: Friendly teasing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 teasing | amod |
| 2 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 teasing | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it means "little friend"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | little friend | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, to a struggling younger kid it's rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 kid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kid | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 kid | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 5 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kid | amod |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 kid | amod |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rude | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rude | cop |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kid | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | kid | rude property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, it means a scaredy-cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 6 | scaredy | scaredy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cat | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 scaredy | punct |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | a scaredy cat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
Option 4
Yes, bèndàn is always friendly, whoever hears it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 friendly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | bèndàn | bèndàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friendly | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 friendly | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 friendly | advmod |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hears | punct |
| 8 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hears | nsubj |
| 9 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 friendly | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hears | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bèndàn | always, friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | whoever | bèndàn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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