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Test 7 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

Same word, same day: Lín's granny says "xiǎo pàngzi" to a baby and Lín's mate says it to a classmate. Why does one sting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granny, xiǎo pàngzi · What happens: say, do · To what, where: Same word, mate, classmate, one sting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Same word, same day: Lín's granny says "xiǎo pàngzi" to a baby and Lín's mate says it to a classmate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 word	amod
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
7	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 granny	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Lín	case
9	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 word	acl:relcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pàngzi	punct
12	xiǎo	xiǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	13 pàngzi	compound
13	pàngzi	pàngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pàngzi	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 baby	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pàngzi	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mate	cc
19	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 mate	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Lín	case
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 baby	conj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 says	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 classmate	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 classmate	det
26	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 word	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín's granny	Same word not said here					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	xiǎo pàngzi to a baby and Lín's mate	mate	a classmate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to classmate=Recipient

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: Why does one sting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sting	nummod
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		one sting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Babies don't understand Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 understand	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 understand	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	Babies					chinese property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Who says it to whom decides; kid to kid about bodies hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	obj
4	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 decides	mark
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 decides	nsubj
6	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 kid	punct
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hurts	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 kid	mark
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kid	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 bodies	case
12	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kid	nmod
13	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		it					tree rules
2	decide	present							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	present	kid and kid about bodies						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Grannies are allowed to be rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	aux:pass
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 rude	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		Grannies					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Grannies not said here					rude property	tree rules

Option 4

One of them got the tone wrong, so it meant something rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 got	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tone	det
6	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meant	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 meant	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 meant	obj
13	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	One of them	the tone				wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus
2	mean	past	tone	something					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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