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Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit». Why not?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: reckon, innit · To what, where: hǎo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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: ★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckons	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bù	bù	ADP	_	7 hǎo	case
7	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	5 reckons	obj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bú	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bú	cop
10	bú	bú	X	Foreign=Yes	7 hǎo	flat
11	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	10 bú	flat:foreign
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckons	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 shì	case
16	bú	bú	ADP	_	17 shì	case
17	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 same	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
19	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 reckons	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	★	hǎo					tree rules
2	innit in a quote	infinitive							tree rules

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: Why not?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Why	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

bú comes only before a falling tone, and hǎo dips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bú	bú	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 tone	advmod
4	before	before	ADP	_	7 tone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tone	det
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tone	amod
7	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dips	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dips	cc
10	hǎo	hǎo	X	_	11 dips	compound
11	dips	dip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	bú	hǎo dips		a falling tone			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before tone=Location
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

hǎo falls, so bù must stay low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
5	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 falls	conj
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	hǎo						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	must	bù					low property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

bù rises before every word, so she's right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rises	nsubj
2	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 word	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rises	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 right	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 right	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rises	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	bù			every word			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before word=Location
2	is	present	bù					right property	tree rules

Option 4

bù hǎo is rude, so it never changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	4 rude	nsubj
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bù	flat:foreign
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 changes	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 changes	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 changes	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 changes	advmod
9	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bù					rude property	tree rules
2	not change	present	it						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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