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Test 3 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

Ming's mum asks once, lightly, if you want to stay for dinner, and doesn't ask again. What's the likely meaning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, you, likely meaning · What happens: ask, want, stay, not ask, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Ming's mum asks once, lightly, if you want to stay for dinner, and doesn't ask again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ming	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 asks	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lightly	punct
7	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	4 asks	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 want	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 dinner	case
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 ask	advmod
20	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	parataxis
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 ask	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ming's mum					lightly, once property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					for dinner	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not ask speech: ask	present · do-support					again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 the likely meaning?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It may just be politeness

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 politeness	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 politeness	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 politeness	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 politeness	cop
5	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	It	politeness					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She's angry with you

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					with you; angry property	tree rules

Option 3

She wants you to cook

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cook	mark
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	you					tree rules
2	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She means you must stay

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	She						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	must	you						vn exist-47.1 «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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