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Test 5 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

In a cartoon a boy grabs a red envelope with one hand and tears it open. Lín's mum tuts. Which two rules did he break?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, mum, two rules · What happens: grab, tear, tut, break · To what, where: red envelope, cartoon, envelope

This is test 5 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a boy grabs a red envelope with one hand and tears it open.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	nsubj
6	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 envelope	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 envelope	amod
9	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hand	nummod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tears	cc
14	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grabs	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tears	obj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tears	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grabs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	a boy	a red envelope		a cartoon		with one hand	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envelope=Theme
2	tear	present	a boy not said here	envelope				open property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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: Lín's mum tuts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lín	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tuts	nsubj
4	tuts	tut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tuts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tut	present	Lín's mum						tree rules

Sentence 3: Which two rules did he break?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 break	obj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 rules	nummod
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 break	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 break	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 break	nsubj
6	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 break	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · do-support	two rules						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Patient

The options

Option 1

Saying sorry first and saying goodbye after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 after	csubj
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Saying	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Saying	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 saying	cc
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
6	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		sorry				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund		goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both hands, and not opening it in front of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hands	det
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opening	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 opening	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 opening	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 opening	advmod
6	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 opening	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opening	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not open	gerund	both hands	it		front of them			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location

Option 3

Wearing red and bowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wearing	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bowing	cc
4	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wearing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund						red property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	bow	gerund							vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Eating first and singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Eating	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 singing	cc
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Eating	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund						first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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