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Test 12 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

Lín's mate reckons chòuměi means "smelly but pretty", so it's a compliment. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, chòuměi · What happens: reckon, mean, be · To what, where: smelly, compliment

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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 reckons chòuměi means "smelly but pretty", so it's a compliment.

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 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chòuměi	chòuměi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 smelly	punct
8	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 pretty	cc
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 smelly	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 smelly	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 compliment	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 compliment	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 compliment	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 compliment	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 compliment	det
17	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Lín's mate						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	chòuměi	smelly					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smelly=Topic
3	is a	present	chòuměi	a compliment					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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it's a real compliment, a nice one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 compliment	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 compliment	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 compliment	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 compliment	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 compliment	amod
7	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 compliment	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a real compliment and a nice one					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it teases someone vain about looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 teases	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 teases	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teases	nsubj
4	teases	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 teases	obj
6	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teases	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 looks	case
8	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present	it	someone				vain property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it means smelly feet

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	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feet	amod
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	smelly feet					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Topic

Option 4

No, it means a crybaby at school

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	6 crybaby	det
6	crybaby	crybaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crybaby	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	a crybaby		school			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crybaby=Topic

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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