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Test 10 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guānxi!». What should he have said?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, bus · What happens: shove, shout, say · To what, where: cartoon, méi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guānxi!».

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 shoves	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoves	nsubj
6	shoves	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	past	past	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 shoves	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 everyone	nmod
12	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bus	acl
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 méi	punct
14	méi	méi	X	_	12 shouting	obj
15	guānxi	guānxi	X	Foreign=Yes	14 méi	flat:foreign
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 shoves	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 shoves	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shoves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	present	a boy			a cartoon		past everyone	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past everyone=Trajectory
2	shout speech: express	gerund	the bus not said here	méi					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent méi=Topic

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 should he have said?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	aux
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

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

The options

Option 1

bú kèqi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bú	bú	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	kèqi	kèqi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bú	flat:foreign

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

jiè guò yíxià

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jiè	jiè	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	guò	guò	X	_	1 jiè	obj
3	yíxià	yíxià	X	_	2 guò	goeswith

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jiè	imperative	you not said here	guò					tree rules

Option 3

wǎn'ān, see you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wǎn'ān	punct
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	you				wǎn'ān vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

xièxie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xièxie	xièxie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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