Exam question 2 · Yes and no — there is no single word

Ascertain the correct negation of the verb yǒu.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: correct negation

This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Yes and no — there is no single word» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 negation	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 negation	amod
4	negation	negation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 verb	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 verb	det
7	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 negation	appos
8	yǒu	yǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	7 verb	dep
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the correct negation					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent negation=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

bú yǒu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bú	bú	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	yǒu	yǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bú	flat:foreign

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

Option 2

bù yǒu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	yǒu	yǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bù	flat:foreign

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

méiyǒu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	méiyǒu	méiyǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4

bú shì yǒu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bú	bú	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	shì	shì	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bú	flat:foreign
3	yǒu	yǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bú	flat:foreign

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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