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Test 3 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

You wish Lín's granny "xuéyè jìnbù!". She laughs kindly. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Lín · What happens: wish, laugh · To what, where: granny

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: You wish Lín's granny "xuéyè jìnbù!".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 granny	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Lín	case
5	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 jìnbù	punct
7	xuéyè	xuéyè	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jìnbù	compound
8	jìnbù	jìnbù	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granny	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 jìnbù	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 jìnbù	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	You	Lín's granny					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot granny=Theme

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: She laughs kindly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 laughs	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Lín					kindly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's only for weddings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 weddings	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weddings	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 weddings	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 weddings	case
5	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for weddings	tree rules

Option 2

It means "go to sleep now"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sleep	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive					now		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's a wish for pupils, not for elders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wish	det
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 pupils	case
6	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wish	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 elders	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 elders	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 elders	case
10	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a wish and elders				for pupils	tree rules

Option 4

It's a rude word for old people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rude word				for old people	tree rules

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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