Test 1 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

my mate says u should rip the hóngbāo open straight away and say "ooh how much". good manners?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: say, rip, open, ooh · To what, where: hóngbāo, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 rip	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rip	aux
6	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hóngbāo	det
8	hóngbāo	hóngbāo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rip	obj
9	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 rip	parataxis
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 open	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 open	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ooh	punct
15	ooh	ooh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ooh	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ooh	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rip	punct
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 manners	amod
21	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 rip	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rip	should	u	the hóngbāo		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hóngbāo=Patient
3	open	infinitive			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ooh in a quote	infinitive		much		tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and count it out loud for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 count	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 count	cc
4	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 count	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 count	compound:prt
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 count	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count out	imperative	you not said here	it				for everyone; loud property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, both hands, thank them, open it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hands	det
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct
6	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thank	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct
9	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thank	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 open	obj
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 open	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	both hands		them = they				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	open	infinitive	both hands not said here	it				late property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

No, you should give it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	should	you	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yes, opening it at once shows you like it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 opening	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 shows	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opening	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 opening	obl
7	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shows	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	open	gerund		it	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Location
2	show	present	opening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	present	you	it	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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