Test 5 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings
A girl tells the teacher a big kid is hitting her brother, and gets called gàozhuàngjīng. Was she wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, big kid · What happens: tell, hit, call, be · To what, where: teacher, brother, gàozhuàngjīng · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: A girl tells the teacher a big kid is hitting her brother, and gets called gàozhuàngjīng.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kid | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kid | amod |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hitting | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hitting | aux |
| 10 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tells | ccomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hitting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 15 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tells | parataxis |
| 17 | gàozhuàngjīng | gàozhuàngjīng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a girl | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hit | present · progressive | a big kid | kid's brother | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brother=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | gàozhuàngjīng | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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: Was she wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, she should hit back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | aux |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 hit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit back | should | she | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, never tell a teacher anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 tell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 anything | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anything | compound |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | anything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, telling about bullying is right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 telling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 telling | punct |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 right | csubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 bullying | case |
| 5 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telling | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | about bullying | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about bullying=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | telling | right property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, but she must say sorry to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 say | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 say | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sorry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | must | she | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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