Test 4 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me
You thank your best mate «xièxie nǐ» for every single crisp. How does it sound?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, mate · What happens: thank, sound · To what, where: best mate
This is test 4 · ★ 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: You thank your best mate «xièxie nǐ» for every single crisp.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 thank | nsubj |
| 2 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 mate | amod |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thank | obj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 nǐ | punct |
| 7 | xièxie | xièxie | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 8 | nǐ | nǐ | X | _ | 2 thank | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 nǐ | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 crisp | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 crisp | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crisp | amod |
| 13 | crisp | crisp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thank | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | You | your best mate | for every single crisp | 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.
Sentence 2: How does it sound?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sound | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present · do-support | mate | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Like you are saying goodbye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | SCONJ | _ | 4 saying | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | you | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
Option 2
Very rude, like an insult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 rude | advmod |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rude | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 insult | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 insult | det |
| 6 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rude | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Funny and a bit distant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 distant | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distant | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Funny | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Like you're asking for more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | SCONJ | _ | 4 asking | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 asking | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asking | aux |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 more | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 asking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · progressive | you | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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