Test 2 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

«ming swore he didn't cheat, he said wǒ zhēn de méi zuòbì» What did he say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ming · What happens: swear, not cheat, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	3 swore	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swore	nsubj
3	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheat	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cheat	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cheat	advmod
7	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swore	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swore	conj
11	wǒ	wǒ	X	_	12 zhēn	flat
12	zhēn	zhēn	X	_	15 zuòbì	compound
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 zhēn	flat:foreign
14	méi	méi	X	_	12 zhēn	flat:foreign
15	zuòbì	zuòbì	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 zuòbì	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 say	obj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	swear in a quote	past	ming	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not cheat in a quote	past · do-support	ming	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	ming	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past · do-support	ming	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Did I cheat? Who says so?

Sentence 1: Did I cheat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheat	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cheat	nsubj
3	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cheat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past · do-support	I						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Sentence 2: Who says so?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 says	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

I honestly didn't cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 cheat	nsubj
2	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 cheat	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheat	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cheat	advmod
5	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cheat	past · do-support	I					honestly property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

I'll cheat next time, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cheat	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cheat	aux
3	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cheat	punct
7	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	3 cheat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	future	I				time	maybe property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

I really did cheat, sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cheat	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 cheat	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheat	aux
4	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheat	punct
6	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	4 cheat	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past · do-support	I						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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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