Test 7 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

«heard ming's mum say that word lol, sounded rude, gonna copy her» What should you know?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, you · What happens: hear, say, sound, copy, know · To what, where: word, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	2 heard	punct
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 ming	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 word	mark
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 heard	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sounded	punct
11	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sounded	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 copy	punct
14	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	15 copy	dep
15	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 copy	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 copy	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 know	obj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	ming's mum	word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	sound in a quote	past			rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	copy in a quote	infinitive		mum		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	know	should	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

nèige is an innocent «um»; never mock it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nèige	nèige	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 um	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 um	det
4	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 um	amod
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 um	punct
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 um	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 mock	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 mock	advmod
10	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 um	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mock	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	nèige	a innocent um					tree rules
2	not mock	infinitive	nèige not said here	nèige					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is a swear word in Chinese, a very bad one

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	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	compound
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Chinese	case
7	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	_	5 word	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a swear word		Chinese			tree rules

Option 3

It means stupid

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It					stupid property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is only for teenagers

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	5 teenagers	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 teenagers	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 teenagers	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 teenagers	case
5	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for teenagers	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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