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Test 1 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

«didn't say hi to his parents, went straight to the PlayStation, it's fine right?» Is it fine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: PlayStation · What happens: not say, go, be · To what, where: parents, PlayStation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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: «didn't say hi to his parents, went straight to the PlayStation, it's fine right?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hi	hi	INTJ	_	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 parents	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 PlayStation	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 PlayStation	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 PlayStation	det
14	PlayStation	PlayStation	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 right	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 right	amod
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support			his parents				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hi=Topic to parent=Recipient
2	go in a quote	past				the PlayStation			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to playstation=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present	PlayStation					right property	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.

Sentence 2: Is it fine?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fine	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, Chinese parents don't expect a greeting from kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 expect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 parents	amod
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 expect	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 expect	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 expect	advmod
7	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 greeting	det
9	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expect	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 kids	case
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 expect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not expect	present · do-support	Chinese parents	a greeting				from kids	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, not greeting the parents is the biggest mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 greeting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 greeting	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 greeting	advmod
4	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 mistake	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parents	det
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greeting	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mistake	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mistake	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 mistake	amod
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not greet speech: greet	gerund			the parents				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme
2	is a	present	greeting	the biggest mistake					tree rules

Option 3

No, you must bow three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 bow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bow	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bow	aux
5	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	must	you				time		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, if you say it at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you	it			at the end		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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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