Test 8 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

«why u snapping nǐ gàn má ne at me, I'm just sitting here» What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, I · What happens: snap, sit, go · To what, where: má ne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	4 snapping	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 snapping	advmod
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 snapping	nsubj
4	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	8 ne	dep
6	gàn	gàn	X	Foreign=Yes	8 ne	dep
7	má	má	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ne	amod
8	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapping	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 snapping	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sitting	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 snapping	conj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sitting	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	parataxis
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 snapping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snap in a quote	gerund	u	má ne		at me	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ne=Theme
2	sit in a quote	present · progressive	I		here		tree rules
3	go	past				wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Said sharply it sounds like «what are you doing?!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sounds	advcl
2	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	1 Said	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 doing	mark
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 doing	obj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 doing	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 doing	nsubj
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sounds	parataxis
11	?!	?!	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		sharply property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sound	present	it		tree rules
3	do in a quote	present · progressive	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 2

It means «go away»

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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	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 clause=Topic
2	go away in a quote	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It means «you're late»

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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct

#	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 in a quote	present	you					late property	tree rules

Option 4

It is always a kind question, so nothing went wrong

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 question	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 question	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 question	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 question	amod
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 question	appos
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind question				always property	tree rules
2	go	past	nothing					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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