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Test 4 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

«his dad said walk slowly?? I'm not a snail» What did màn zǒu mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, I, màn · What happens: say, walk, not be, mean · To what, where: snail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: «his dad said walk slowly??

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	his dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk in a quote	infinitive						slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: I'm not a snail» What did màn zǒu mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 snail	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snail	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 snail	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snail	det
5	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 snail	punct
7	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 mean	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	aux
9	màn	màn	X	Foreign=Yes	11 mean	nsubj
10	zǒu	zǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	9 màn	flat
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 snail	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 snail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	a snail					tree rules
2	mean in a quote	past · do-support	màn	a snail					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Walk slowly, you're too noisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 noisy	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 noisy	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 noisy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 noisy	advmod
7	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you					noisy property	tree rules

Option 2

Come back again later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here				again	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take care going home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Take	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	go	gerund	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You're being told off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	present · passive		You					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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