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Test 8 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

In a cartoon a boy hands Ming's mum a gift with one hand, she says «tài kèqi le» and he takes it back. What should he have done?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Ming · What happens: say, take back, do · To what, where: kèqi le, le · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a boy hands Ming's mum a gift with one hand, she says «tài kèqi le» and he takes it back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gift	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hands	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hands	compound
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Ming	compound
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ming	case
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gift	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gift	det
11	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hand	nummod
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gift	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gift	parataxis
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 le	punct
19	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	21 le	dep
20	kèqi	kèqi	X	Foreign=Yes	21 le	compound
21	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 le	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 takes	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 takes	nsubj
25	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 takes	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 takes	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mum	kèqi le					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent le=Topic
2	take back	present	Ming	le					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: What should he have done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 done	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · perfect	Ming						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Thrown it to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thrown	thrown	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 it	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kept offering it with both hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Kept	xcomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offering	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 offering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past							tree rules
2	offer	gerund		it				with both hands	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Taken it back, she said no, so that's that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taken	taken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Taken	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Taken	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Taken	parataxis
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 that	mark
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 that	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taken back	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
3	is a	present	that	that					tree rules

Option 4

Given it to Ming instead, quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Given	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Ming	case
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Given	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 quietly	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 instead	punct
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Given	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		it	Ming			quietly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ming=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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