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Test 10 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

In a cartoon a kid says «kù!» with a rising tone and nobody understands. How is kù said?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, nobody · What happens: say, rise, understand · To what, where: kù, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a kid says «kù!» with a rising tone and nobody understands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 kù	punct
8	kù	kù	X	Foreign=Yes	6 says	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 kù	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 kù	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 tone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tone	det
13	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tone	amod
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 understands	cc
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 understands	nsubj
17	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tone	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a kid	kù		a cartoon		with a rising tone	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent kù=Theme in cartoon=Manner
2	rise	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	understand	present	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 is kù said?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
3	kù	kù	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		kù					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

With no real tone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 tone	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 tone	det
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tone	amod
4	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tone	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Falling, like «KOO!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 KOO	csubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Falling	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 KOO	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 KOO	punct
5	KOO	KOO	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 KOO	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 KOO	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rising, like a question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 question	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rising	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund						like a question	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Dipping down and long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Dipping	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 long	cc
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 down	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	gerund						down property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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