Test 3 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word
Ming's granny holds out a plate and you snap «bú yào!». What would happen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granny, you · What happens: hold out, snap, happen · To what, where: plate, bú
This is test 3 · ★ 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 granny holds out a plate and you snap «bú yào!».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 granny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ming | case |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 holds | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plate | det |
| 7 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 snap | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 snap | nsubj |
| 10 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 holds | conj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 bú | punct |
| 12 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 snap | obj |
| 13 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 bú | flat:foreign |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 snap | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 snap | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 holds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | present | Ming's granny | a plate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | snap | present | you | bú | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bú=Theme |
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 would happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It sounds blunt; bú yòng le, xièxie is kinder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sounds | nsubj |
| 2 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sounds | xcomp |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounds | punct |
| 5 | bú | bú | SCONJ | _ | 6 yòng | mark |
| 6 | yòng | yòng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sounds | advcl |
| 7 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yòng | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kinder | punct |
| 9 | xièxie | xièxie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kinder | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kinder | cop |
| 11 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 sounds | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | It | blunt property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | yòng | gerund | le | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | xièxie | kind property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nothing, it is the polite no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 no | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 no | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 no | det |
| 6 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 no | amod |
| 7 | no | no | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the polite no | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It means thank you very much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 thank | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
Option 4
She will think you love it and pile on even more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pile | cc |
| 8 | pile | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 more | case |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 pile | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | future | She | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | love | present | you | it | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pile | present | you not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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