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Test 11 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

«zěnme le?» «méi shìr» — but your friend is crying. What's kind?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: méi shìr · What happens: cry, be

This is test 11 · ★ 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: «zěnme le?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 le	punct
2	zěnme	zěnme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 le	amod
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 le	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 le	punct

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

Sentence 2: «méi shìr» — but your friend is crying.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 shìr	punct
2	méi	méi	X	_	3 shìr	compound
3	shìr	shìr	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crying	nsubj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 shìr	punct
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 crying	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 crying	cc
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crying	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 crying	aux
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	méi shìr						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What's kind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 kind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Say «bù huì ba!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 ba	punct
3	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ba	amod
4	huì	huì	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ba	amod
5	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ba	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ba	punct

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

Option 2

Believe him and run off to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Believe	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 run	cc
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Believe	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	run off	infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Laugh and say kù, to cheer him up a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 say	cc
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	kù	kù	X	Foreign=Yes	3 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheer	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cheer	mark
7	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheer	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 cheer	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheer	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	kù					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kù=Topic
3	cheer up	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he				a bit obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stay with him and ask again gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stay	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					with him = he	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here				again	gently property	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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