Test 3 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings
Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money. Is it fair?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, family · What happens: call, not buy, have, be · To what, where: friend xiǎoqìguǐ, sweets, little money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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 calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 xiǎoqìguǐ | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 xiǎoqìguǐ | compound |
| 5 | xiǎoqìguǐ | xiǎoqìguǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 buying | mark |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 buying | advmod |
| 8 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 calls | advcl |
| 9 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 has | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 calls | conj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 little | advmod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 money | amod |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Lín | a friend xiǎoqìguǐ | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent xiǎoqìguǐ=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not buy | gerund | Lín not said here | sweets | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the friend's family | little money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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: Is it fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fair | expl |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, it's just a joke word, no harm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 word | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 word | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 word | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 harm | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 harm | det |
| 11 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a joke word and no harm | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
No, because xiǎoqìguǐ means "rich"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 means | mark |
| 4 | xiǎoqìguǐ | xiǎoqìguǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rich | punct |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rich | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | xiǎoqìguǐ | rich property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yes, he really didn't share, so it's true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 share | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 share | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 share | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 share | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 share | advmod |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 true | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 true | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | cop |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 share | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not share | past · do-support | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | true property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, that teasing is unfair and hurts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 unfair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 teasing | det |
| 4 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unfair | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfair | cop |
| 6 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurts | cc |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfair | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that teasing | unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | that teasing not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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