Test 9 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings
Lín falls off his bike, laughs and gets up fine, and you say "xiào sǐ wǒ le". OK or not?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lín, you · What happens: fall off, laugh, get up, say · To what, where: bike, xiào le · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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 falls off his bike, laughs and gets up fine, and you say "xiào sǐ wǒ le".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 falls | nsubj |
| 2 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 falls | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bike | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 falls | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughs | punct |
| 7 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 falls | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gets | cc |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughs | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 gets | compound:prt |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gets | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 falls | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 xiào | punct |
| 17 | xiào | xiào | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 le | amod |
| 18 | sǐ | sǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 xiào | flat:foreign |
| 19 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 xiào | flat:foreign |
| 20 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 le | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | present | Lín | Lín's bike | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bike=Extent | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | Lín not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get up | present | Lín not said here | fine property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | xiào le | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent le=Topic |
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: OK or not?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 not | cc |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 OK | conj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 OK | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Not OK, it's a swear word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 OK | advmod |
| 2 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 OK | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 word | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a OK swear word | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
OK if he's fine and laughing too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fine | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laughing | cc |
| 7 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fine | advcl |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 laughing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | he not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Never OK, it means "die"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 means | advmod |
| 2 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | 5 means | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 OK | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 7 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present | it | die | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Topic |
Option 4
OK even if he's badly hurt and crying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | 7 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 hurt | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 hurt | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurt | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crying | cc |
| 9 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · passive | he | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | he not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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