Test 8 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

«she said méi shì not méi shìr, she's saying it wrong» Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, be · To what, where: shìr · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 said	punct
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	méi	méi	X	_	5 shì	flat:foreign
5	shì	shì	X	Foreign=Yes	3 said	ccomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 shìr	advmod
7	méi	méi	X	_	8 shìr	compound
8	shìr	shìr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shì	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saying	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	aux
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saying	obj
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saying	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
16	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wrong	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	she	shìr		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is	present			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 · ← Mova's choice

Only méi shìr is real Chinese, the other is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 shìr	advmod
2	méi	méi	X	_	3 shìr	compound
3	shìr	shìr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Chinese	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Chinese	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Chinese	amod
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wrong	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wrong	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wrong	cop
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Chinese	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	méi shìr					chinese property	tree rules
2	is	present	the other					wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

Only méi shì is real Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 shì	advmod
2	méi	méi	X	_	3 shì	compound
3	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Chinese	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Chinese	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Chinese	amod
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	méi shì					chinese property	tree rules

Option 3

Neither; it is méi xiè

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 xiè	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 xiè	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 xiè	cop
5	méi	méi	X	_	6 xiè	compound
6	xiè	xiè	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	méi xiè				neither property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both are right; the r curl is Beijing style

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 right	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 style	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 curl	det
6	r	r	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curl	amod
7	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 style	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 style	cop
9	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 style	compound
10	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Both					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the r curl	Beijing style					tree rules

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