Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★
★★★ Riya from Mumbai wants a bun and tells the stall «wǒ mài». What should she have said?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, ★ · What happens: want, tell, say · To what, where: bun, stall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Riya from Mumbai wants a bun and tells the stall «wǒ mài».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | Riya | Riya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Mumbai | case |
| 6 | Mumbai | Mumbai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Riya | nmod |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bun | det |
| 9 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tells | cc |
| 11 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wants | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stall | det |
| 13 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tells | obj |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 wǒ | punct |
| 15 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 tells | ccomp |
| 16 | mài | mài | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 wǒ | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | ★ ★ ★ | a bun | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | ★ ★ ★ not said here | the stall | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stall=Recipient |
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 should she have said?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 said | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should · perfect | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
wǒ mǎi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | mǎi | mǎi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
wǒ ma, light and short
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wǒ | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ma | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 short | cc |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ma | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | imperative | you not said here | ma and light | tree rules |
Option 3
wǒ mā, high and level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mā | compound |
| 2 | mā | mā | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 high | punct |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mā | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 level | cc |
| 6 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 high | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
wǒ mài, only louder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | mài | mài | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 louder | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 louder | advmod |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 wǒ | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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