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Test 11 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

Grandad says «chī ba, chī ba!» and picks up his chopsticks. What does it mean for you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, ba · What happens: say, pick up, mean · To what, where: ba, chopsticks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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: Grandad says «chī ba, chī ba!» and picks up his chopsticks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 ba	punct
4	chī	chī	ADP	_	5 ba	case
5	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ba	punct
7	chī	chī	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ba	compound
8	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ba	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 ba	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ba	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 picks	cc
12	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picks	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 chopsticks	nmod:poss
15	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 picks	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandad	ba					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ba=Topic
2	pick up	present	Grandad not said here	Grandad's chopsticks					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chopstick=Topic

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 does it mean for you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 mean	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	ba					for you	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme for you=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You must wait for Granny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wait	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Granny	case
5	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	must	You					for Granny	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

You should leave the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	should	You	the table					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme

Option 3

You must cook the rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cook	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	aux
3	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rice	det
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	must	You	the rice					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You may start eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	may	You						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	You not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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