Test 1 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

«xiexie is like zee-zee right, sounds like cheese» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: xiexie, cheese · What happens: be, sound

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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	_	8 right	punct
2	xiexie	xiexie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 zee	case
5	zee	zee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zee	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 zee	punct
7	zee	zee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	obl
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sounds	punct
10	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	advcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 cheese	case
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounds	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 cheese	punct
14	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cheese	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	xiexie	like zee zee; right property	tree rules
2	sound in a quote	present	xiexie not said here	like cheese	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	cheese	right 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

Yes, and it means cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 means	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	cheese					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic

Option 2

Yes, exactly like zee-zee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 zee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 zee	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 zee	case
5	zee	zee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zee	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 zee	punct
7	zee	zee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No, it is said SHAY-SHAY, both falling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux:pass
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	SHAY	SHAY	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 SHAY	punct
8	SHAY	SHAY	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 SHAY	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 falling	punct
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 falling	det
11	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 SHAY	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it sounds like SHYEH-shyeh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sounds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sounds	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 shyeh	case
6	SHYEH	SHYEH	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shyeh	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 SHYEH	punct
8	shyeh	shyeh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	it					like SHYEH shyeh	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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