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Test 4 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

Lín's mate trips and is really crying with a cut knee. Someone shouts "àikūguǐ!". What's the right move?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Someone, right move · What happens: trip, cry, shout, be · To what, where: àikūguǐ

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 trips and is really crying with a cut knee.

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 trips	nsubj
4	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crying	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crying	aux
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 crying	advmod
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 trips	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 knee	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 knee	det
11	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knee	amod
12	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	present	Lín's mate						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	present · progressive	Lín's mate not said here					with a cut knee	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with knee=Theme

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: Someone shouts "àikūguǐ!".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 àikūguǐ	punct
4	àikūguǐ	àikūguǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 àikūguǐ	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 àikūguǐ	punct
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Someone	àikūguǐ					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent àikūguǐ=Topic

Sentence 3: What's the right move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the right move						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Laugh and join in the name-calling, it's only a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 join	cc
3	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 calling	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 calling	det
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calling	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 name	punct
8	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 join	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joke	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 joke	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 joke	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 joke	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 joke	det
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join	infinitive	you not said here					in the name calling	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in calling=Theme
3	is a	present	calling	a joke					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Help him; a crier needs help, not a name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crier	det
5	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Help	parataxis
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 name	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		him = he			a name obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	need	present	a crier	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 3

Shout "xiào sǐ wǒ le!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sǐ	punct
3	xiào	xiào	X	Foreign=Yes	4 sǐ	flat:foreign
4	sǐ	sǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Shout	obj
5	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	4 sǐ	flat:foreign
6	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	4 sǐ	flat:foreign
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Shout	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	xiào sǐ					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sǐ=Topic

Option 4

Walk away and play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 play	cc
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	infinitive	you not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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