Test 2 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me
Ming's granny tells you sad news about her cat. Should you say duìbuqǐ?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granny, you · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: sad news, you, duìbuqǐ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Ming's granny tells you sad news about her cat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 granny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ming | case |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tells | iobj |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 news | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Ming's granny | sad news | you | about granny's cat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=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: Should you say duìbuqǐ?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | duìbuqǐ | duìbuqǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | you | duìbuqǐ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it means «poor cat»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 cat | punct |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cat | amod |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 cat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | poor cat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, duìbuqǐ is for something you did wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 something | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | duìbuqǐ | duìbuqǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 did | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | duìbuqǐ | for something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | you | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
No, you should say bú kèqi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | kèqi | kèqi | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 bú | flat:foreign |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | you | bú | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bú=Topic |
Option 4
Yes, it is the special sorry for sad news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 sorry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sorry | det |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sorry | amod |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 news | case |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 news | amod |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | for sad news; sorry property | tree rules |
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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