Test 9 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

«just say nǐ hǎo to grandparents, it's fine innit» What makes grannies beam more?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it, fine innit, grannies · What happens: say, be, make, beam · To what, where: nǐ, grandparents, fine innit, grannies, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 say	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	3 say	obj
5	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	4 nǐ	flat:foreign
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 grandparents	case
7	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nǐ	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 innit	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	amod
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 makes	nsubj
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	acl:relcl
16	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 makes	obj
17	beam	beam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 makes	xcomp
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 beam	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	nǐ	grandparents	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nǐ=Topic to grandparent=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	it	fine innit		tree rules
3	make	present	fine innit	grannies		tree rules
4	beam	infinitive	grannies not said here	more		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shouting their names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 names	nmod:poss
3	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund		their names					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		their = they						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nín, the respectful «you»: yéye nǎinai hǎo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	4 respectful	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 respectful	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 respectful	det
4	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 respectful	appos
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 nǎinai	punct
9	yéye	yéye	X	Foreign=Yes	10 nǎinai	flat:foreign
10	nǎinai	nǎinai	X	Foreign=Yes	4 respectful	dep
11	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	10 nǎinai	flat:foreign

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

Option 3

Saying hāi like English kids do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hāi	amod
2	hāi	hāi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 kids	case
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kids	compound
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hāi	nmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	Saying hāi like English kids						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Saying nothing and waving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 waving	cc
4	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	wave	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «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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