Test 1 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!
«my mate says āiyā only means you're angry» Is he right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, āiyā, you · What happens: say, mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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 | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | advcl |
| 5 | āiyā | āiyā | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 means | advmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 angry | nsubj |
| 9 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 angry | cop |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 right | nsubj |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | my mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | āiyā | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | mate | 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
Yes, only for grandparents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 grandparents | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 grandparents | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 grandparents | case |
| 5 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, only angry, every single time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 angry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No, it only means wow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 5 means | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, it can be cross, surprised or fond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 cross | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cross | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cross | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cross | cop |
| 6 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 surprised | punct |
| 8 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cross | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fond | cc |
| 10 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cross | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | it | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | be | 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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