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Test 9 · ★★ · Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said

Lín says "lǎowài" about your English mum, smiling. Should you be furious?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lín, you · What happens: say, smile, be · To what, where: lǎowài · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said» 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 says "lǎowài" about your English mum, smiling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lǎowài	punct
4	lǎowài	lǎowài	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lǎowài	punct
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 mum	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mum	amod
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smiling	punct
11	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lín	lǎowài				about your English mum	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lǎowài=Topic
2	smile	gerund	Lín not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Should you be furious?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 furious	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 furious	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 furious	cop
4	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 furious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	you					furious property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, it's the very worst slur there is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 slur	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slur	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slur	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slur	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 worst	advmod
7	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 slur	amod
8	slur	slur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	vocative
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	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	is a	present	it	the worst slur					tree rules
2	be	present				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, it means "kind lady from abroad"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	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	_	7 lady	punct
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 abroad	case
9	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	7 lady	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lady	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's casual "foreigner", usually no harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 casual	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 casual	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 casual	cop
5	casual	casual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 foreigner	punct
7	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 casual	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 foreigner	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 harm	punct
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 harm	advmod
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 harm	det
12	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 casual	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					casual property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it means "ugly lady"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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	_	7 lady	punct
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lady	punct

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