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Test 6 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

Lín's mate calls another boy "xiǎo pàngzi" every day at lunch. The boy goes quiet. Friendly or not?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, boy · What happens: call, go · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 calls another boy "xiǎo pàngzi" every day at lunch.

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 calls	nsubj
4	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 pàngzi	punct
8	xiǎo	xiǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	9 pàngzi	compound
9	pàngzi	pàngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 pàngzi	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	obl:unmarked
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 lunch	case
14	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Lín's mate	another boy			day	at lunch	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at lunch=Stimulus

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: The boy goes quiet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the boy					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: Friendly or not?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 not	cc
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Friendly	conj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Friendly	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Friendly, it means "healthy"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Friendly	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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 healthy	punct
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 healthy	punct

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

Option 2

Friendly, it's what grannies say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Friendly	parataxis
6	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	grannies						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Not friendly, because it means "stupid"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 friendly	advmod
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 means	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stupid	punct
8	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stupid	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not friendly: body teasing hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 friendly	advmod
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teasing	amod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 friendly	punct
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teasing	compound
5	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurts	nsubj
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	friendly body teasing						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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