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Test 6 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

In a game, a polite knight says «qǐng» before every request, like English please. What would a real kid say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: polite knight, real kid · What happens: say, qǐng · To what, where: game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 game, a polite knight says «qǐng» before every request, like English please.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knight	det
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knight	amod
7	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 qǐng	punct
10	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 says	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 qǐng	punct
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 request	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 request	det
14	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 qǐng	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 English	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 English	case
17	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 qǐng	conj
18	please	please	INTJ	_	10 qǐng	discourse
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a polite knight			a game			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	qǐng in a quote	gerund					before every request		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: What would a real kid say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kid	amod
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Shout qǐng even louder every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Shout	xcomp
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 louder	advmod
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 qǐng	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 qǐng	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	qǐng	gerund	you not said here				time	loud property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Say duìbuqǐ before each and every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Say	obj
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Say	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 word	cc
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 each	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	duìbuqǐ			before each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Use ... hǎo ma? or ... ba instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	...	...	PUNCT	_	4 ma	punct
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	_	4 ma	compound
4	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Use	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 ba	cc
7	...	...	PUNCT	_	6 or	punct
8	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	conj
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	hǎo ma				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Say nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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