Test 10 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word
Ming's mum: «zuòyè zuò wán le ma?» You've finished. Which fits the trick of repeating the verb?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, trick · What happens: finish, fit, repeat · To what, where: trick, verb
This is test 10 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Ming's mum: «zuòyè zuò wán le ma?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ming | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ma | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 zuòyè | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 zuòyè | punct |
| 6 | zuòyè | zuòyè | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ma | nsubj |
| 7 | zuò | zuò | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 ma | nsubj |
| 8 | wán | wán | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ma | amod |
| 9 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ma | compound |
| 10 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ma | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 ma | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: You've finished.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | aux |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · perfect | You | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Sentence 3: Which fits the trick of repeating the verb?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 fits | nsubj |
| 2 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trick | det |
| 4 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fits | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 repeating | mark |
| 6 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 trick | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 verb | det |
| 8 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeating | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | the trick | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | |||||
| 2 | repeat | gerund | the trick not said here | the verb | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
duì bu qǐ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | duì | duì | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | bu | bu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 duì | flat:foreign |
| 3 | qǐ | qǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 duì | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
zuò wán le (done)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zuò | zuò | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 le | dep |
| 2 | wán | wán | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 le | amod |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 le | acl |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | wán le not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yǒu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yǒu | yǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
bú yào
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | yào | yào | 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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