Test 11 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents
«can you stay for tea?» «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll ask my mum» at Ming's?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: stay, say, ask · To what, where: mum, Ming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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: «can you stay for tea?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 tea | case |
| 6 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | can | you | for tea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll ask my mum» at Ming's?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 check | punct |
| 2 | dunno | dunno | INTJ | _ | 5 check | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 check | punct |
| 4 | gotta | gotta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 check | compound |
| 5 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 check | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 say | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 check | parataxis |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mum | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Ming | case |
| 20 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Ming | case |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | I | my mum | Ming | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
wǒ gāi zǒu le, xièxie
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 |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 xièxie | punct |
| 6 | xièxie | xièxie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wǒ | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
màn zǒu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | màn | màn | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | zǒu | zǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 màn | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
wǒ wèn yíxià wǒ māma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 yíxià | compound |
| 2 | wèn | wèn | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | yíxià | yíxià | X | _ | root | root |
| 4 | wǒ | wǒ | X | _ | 3 yíxià | flat |
| 5 | māma | māma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yíxià | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
dǎrǎo le, āyí, zàijiàn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dǎrǎo | dǎrǎo | X | _ | 2 le | compound |
| 2 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 āyí | punct |
| 4 | āyí | āyí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 le | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 zàijiàn | punct |
| 6 | zàijiàn | zàijiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 le | conj |
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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