Test 2 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

«oi granny nǐ pàng le too lol» What's wrong here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi granny · What happens: pàng, be · To what, where: le

This is test 2 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 granny	punct
2	oi	oi	X	_	3 granny	compound
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrong	nsubj
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	5 pàng	advmod
5	pàng	pàng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 granny	acl
6	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pàng	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 pàng	advmod
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 granny	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 granny	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 wrong	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wrong	cop
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 wrong	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pàng in a quote	gerund	oi granny not said here	le					tree rules
2	is	present	oi granny			here		wrong property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A child never says it back to an elder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 says	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 elder	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 elder	det
9	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present	a child	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Nothing, it's a compliment, both ways round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 compliment	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 compliment	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 compliment	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 compliment	det
6	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ways	punct
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 ways	det
9	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 ways	advmod

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

Option 3

You should say it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	You	it				twice property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

It's only wrong in the morning

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	4 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				morning	wrong property	tree rules

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