Test 4 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

«yo granny, ur dumplings are tài niú le» How might Granny take it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dumplings, Granny · What happens: be, take · To what, where: niú le, le · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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 granny	punct
2	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granny	compound
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 le	punct
5	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dumplings	nmod:poss
6	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 le	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 le	cop
8	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	10 le	dep
9	niú	niú	X	Foreign=Yes	10 le	flat:foreign
10	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granny	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 le	punct
12	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 take	advmod
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
14	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 take	nsubj
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 le	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 granny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	ur's dumplings	niú le					tree rules
2	take	might	Granny	le					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

It's the most polite praise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 praise	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 praise	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 praise	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 polite	advmod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 praise	amod
6	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the polite praise					tree rules

Option 2

She'll think you mean a cow is in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 them	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	future	She			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	you	a cow		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic
3	is	present			in them = they	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may sound odd or cheeky to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 cheeky	cc
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 odd	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	may	It		her = she			odd property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer

Option 4

She'll say zhēn guāi at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	zhēn	zhēn	X	Foreign=Yes	3 say	obj
5	guāi	guāi	X	Foreign=Yes	4 zhēn	flat
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	She	zhēn					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zhēn=Topic

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