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Test 9 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

Ming loses a game and mutters «suàn le» with a hurt face. What's going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: lose, mutter, go on · To what, where: game, suàn le

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ming loses a game and mutters «suàn le» with a hurt face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mutters	cc
6	mutters	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loses	conj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 le	punct
8	suàn	suàn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 le	amod
9	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mutters	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 le	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 face	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 face	det
13	hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 face	amod
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mutters	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Ming	a game					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	mutter speech: assert	present	Ming not said here	suàn le				with a hurt face	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=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: What's going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He's happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					happy property	tree rules

Option 2

He's saying thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

He wants to play again at once, straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 play	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 straight	punct
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	4 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here				again	away property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's upset: «whatever, forget it»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upset	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 upset	cop
3	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 forget	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whatever	punct
8	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 upset	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forget	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					upset property	tree rules
2	forget in a quote	infinitive	He not said here	it					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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