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Test 10 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence. What's a lovely reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents, you · What happens: say, answer, be · To what, where: xià cì, silence, lovely reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 cì	punct
5	xià	xià	X	_	6 cì	flat:foreign
6	cì	cì	X	Foreign=Yes	3 say	obj
7	zài	zài	X	Foreign=Yes	6 cì	flat
8	lái	lái	X	Foreign=Yes	6 cì	flat
9	wánr	wánr	X	Foreign=Yes	6 cì	flat
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cì	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 cì	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 answer	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 answer	nsubj
14	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 silence	case
16	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answer	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the parents	xià cì					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cì=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	present	you			silence			vn reciprocate-112-1 «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: What's a lovely reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reply	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reply	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a lovely reply					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

bié kèqi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bié	bié	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	kèqi	kèqi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bié	flat:foreign

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hǎo, xièxie shūshu āyí!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 xièxie	punct
3	xièxie	xièxie	X	Foreign=Yes	1 hǎo	flat
4	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 hǎo	flat:foreign
5	āyí	āyí	X	Foreign=Yes	1 hǎo	flat:foreign
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 hǎo	punct

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

Option 3

qǐng jìn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	jìn	jìn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 qǐng	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	qǐng	gerund							tree rules

Option 4

wǒ gāi zǒu le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	gāi	gāi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
3	zǒu	zǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
4	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign

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

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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