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Test 7 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

In a cartoon a boy offers to carry Granny's bags, she says «bú yòng!», and he shrugs and goes. What would a good guest do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, Granny, good guest · What happens: offer, carry, say, yòng, shrug, go · To what, where: cartoon, bags · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a boy offers to carry Granny's bags, she says «bú yòng!», and he shrugs and goes.

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	6 offers	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offers	nsubj
6	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 offers	xcomp
9	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bags	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Granny	case
11	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 offers	conj
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 yòng	punct
16	bú	bú	SCONJ	_	17 yòng	mark
17	yòng	yòng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 says	ccomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 yòng	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 yòng	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shrugs	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shrugs	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shrugs	nsubj
23	shrugs	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 offers	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 goes	cc
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 shrugs	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 offers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	a boy			a cartoon			tree rules
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	Granny's bags					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
3	say speech: express	present	Granny						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	yòng in a quote	gerund							tree rules
5	shrug	present	boy						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	present	boy not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: What would a good guest do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guest	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guest	amod
5	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	a good guest						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her she's too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	she					old property	tree rules

Option 2

Take her bags without asking ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 asking	mark
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Take	advcl
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 again	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 asking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme bag=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here				again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Shrug and go, she said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shrug	shrug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 go	cc
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shrug	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shrug	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	root	root
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	Shrug not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Shrug						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Offer again and help anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Offer	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 help	cc
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Offer	conj
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 help	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here				again		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	help	infinitive	you not said here					anyway property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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