Test 10 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings
Lín's mum says "lǎnchóng, qǐ chuáng le!" (get up!). How cross is she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, you, cross · What happens: say, chuáng, get up, be · To what, where: lǎnchóng, le, mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ 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 mum says "lǎnchóng, qǐ chuáng le!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lǎnchóng | punct |
| 6 | lǎnchóng | lǎnchóng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 qǐ | punct |
| 8 | qǐ | qǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 lǎnchóng | appos |
| 9 | chuáng | chuáng | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 qǐ | acl |
| 10 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chuáng | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 lǎnchóng | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lǎnchóng | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Lín's mum | lǎnchóng | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lǎnchóng=Topic | ||||
| 2 | chuáng in a quote | gerund | le | 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.
Sentence 2: (get up!).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 get | compound:prt |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Sentence 3: How cross is she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 she | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 she | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 How | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cross | mum | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Furious, he's grounded for a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grounded | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Furious | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grounded | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grounded | aux:pass |
| 5 | grounded | ground | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grounded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ground | present · passive | he | week | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Fond and teasing, not really cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fond | fond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 teasing | cc |
| 3 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fond | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cross | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cross | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 cross | advmod |
| 7 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fond | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cross | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Scared for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Scared | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bored of him and his lie-ins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 him | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ins | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ins | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ins | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lie | punct |
| 8 | ins | in | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 him | 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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