Test 3 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

«ming's grandad keeps saying study hard, every single time, so annoying» What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: study, best reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	5 keeps	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grandad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 ming	case
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
7	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 saying	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 annoying	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 annoying	advmod
15	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keeps	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 annoying	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 reply	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reply	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reply	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 reply	amod
21	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 annoying	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	ming's grandad				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	ming's grandad not said here	study	time	hard property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent study=Topic
3	be speech: assert	present		the best reply			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 · ✓ the right answer

Just say hǎo de, don't argue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	2 say	obj
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 hǎo	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 argue	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 argue	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 argue	advmod
8	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	hǎo					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hǎo=Topic
2	not argue speech: disagree	infinitive · do-support							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell him you already did all your homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 homework	det:predet
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 homework	nmod:poss
8	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past	you	your homework					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality

Option 3

Say bù xíng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	3 xíng	amod
3	xíng	xíng	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	bù xíng					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent xíng=Topic

Option 4

Ignore him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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