Test 1 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word

«just say yes, it's shì for everything» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it, shì · What happens: say, be · To what, where: shì · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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	_	3 say	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shì	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shì	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shì	cop
8	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 everything	case
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 shì	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 everything	punct
12	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shì	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	it	shì	for everything	tree rules
3	is	present	shì		right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 school	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 school	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 school	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, you answer with the question's verb: yǒu, yào, hǎo...

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 answer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 answer	nsubj
4	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 verb	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 question	det
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 verb	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 question	case
9	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 yǒu	punct
11	yǒu	yǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 answer	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yào	punct
13	yào	yào	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	11 yǒu	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hǎo	punct
15	hǎo	hǎo	NOUN	_	11 yǒu	conj
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	you					with the question's verb	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, yes is always duì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 duì	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 duì	discourse
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 duì	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 duì	advmod
6	duì	duì	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, shì answers every question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 answers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answers	nsubj
4	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	shì	every question					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

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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