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Test 3 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

You tell Ming you met a famous footballer and he says «bù huì ba!». Is he refusing something?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, Ming · What happens: tell, meet, say, refuse · To what, where: Ming, famous footballer, bù huì ba, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: You tell Ming you met a famous footballer and he says «bù huì ba!».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 footballer	det
7	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 footballer	amod
8	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 ba	punct
13	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	15 ba	amod
14	huì	huì	X	Foreign=Yes	15 ba	amod
15	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 ba	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 ba	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	You		Ming				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ming=Recipient clause=Topic
2	meet	past	you	a famous footballer					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footballer=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	Ming	bù huì ba					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ba=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.

Sentence 2: Is he refusing something?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refusing	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refusing	nsubj
3	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 refusing	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 refusing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present · progressive	Ming	something					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

The options

Option 1

Yes, he won't believe you ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 believe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 believe	advmod
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 believe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	future	he	you			ever		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, he won't play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 play	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 play	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 play	advmod
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	future	he						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, it means he's bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bored	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bored	cop
7	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp

#	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
2	is	present	he					bored property	tree rules

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

No, it's disbelief: no way!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 disbelief	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 disbelief	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disbelief	cop
5	disbelief	disbelief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disbelief	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 disbelief	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	disbelief and no way					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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