Test 9 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word
«shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu. You don't. What do you say?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming, You · What happens: shut up, answer, get, ask, not do, say · To what, where: crisps, yǒu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: «shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asks | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 shut | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shut | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shut | advcl |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 crisps | det |
| 9 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 not | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 crisps | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
| 13 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | nsubj |
| 14 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | yǒu | yǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 asks | obj |
| 16 | méiyǒu | méiyǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 yǒu | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up in a quote | infinitive | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | any crisps | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crisp=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | Ming | yǒu | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent yǒu=Recipient clause=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.
Sentence 2: You don't.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 do | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | present | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What do you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ 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 2
bù xíng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bù | bù | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 xíng | amod |
| 2 | xíng | xíng | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
bú duì
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 duì | compound |
| 2 | duì | duì | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
bú shì
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 shì | flat:foreign |
| 2 | shì | shì | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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