Test 11 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings
Which teasing name is "silly melon"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teasing name · What happens: be · To what, where: silly melon
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 teasing | det |
| 2 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | compound |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melon | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 melon | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 melon | punct |
| 6 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 melon | amod |
| 7 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 melon | punct |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 melon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | teasing name | silly melon | 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
chòuměi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chòuměi | chòuměi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
shǎguā
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shǎguā | shǎguā | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
lǎnchóng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lǎnchóng | lǎnchóng | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
bèndàn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bèndàn | bèndàn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t11/