Test 2 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word
«bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any. What should it be?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bù yǒu, friend, it · What happens: say, mean, not get, be · To what, where: friend, any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: «bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 yǒu | punct |
| 2 | bù | bù | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 yǒu | flat:foreign |
| 3 | yǒu | yǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 says | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 yǒu | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 meaning | punct |
| 10 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 says | advcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 meaning | ccomp |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 got | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | bù yǒu | your friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | bù yǒu not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not get | present · perfect | friend | any | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus |
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 it be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 be | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | should | it | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
bú yào le
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 le | compound |
| 2 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 bú | flat:foreign |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ 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 3 · ← Mova's choice
bù shì de
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bù | bù | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 shì | flat:foreign |
| 2 | shì | shì | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 shì | flat:foreign |
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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