Test 7 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

«bloody lift, our flat's on floor 4 and nan won't take it» Why might she dislike 4?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bloody lift, she · What happens: not take, dislike · To what, where: nan, 4

This is test 7 of lesson 6 «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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 lift	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lift	amod
3	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flat	punct
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flat	nmod:poss
6	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	nmod
7	's	's	PART	_	6 flat	case
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	nmod
10	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 floor	flat
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nan	cc
12	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	conj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 take	advmod
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 dislike	advmod
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dislike	aux
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dislike	nsubj
21	dislike	dislike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	advcl
22	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 dislike	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	future	bloody lift 's our flat on floor and nan	nan					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	dislike	might	she	4					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 4=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

4 means «poo» in Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 poo	punct
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 poo	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Chinese	case
7	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	4	poo				in Chinese	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot poo=Theme in chinese=Attribute

Option 2

Floor 4 is the emperor's floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	nsubj
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Floor	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 floor	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 emperor	case
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Floor	the emperor's floor					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sì sounds like the word for death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sì	sì	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 word	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	sì					like the word for death	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

4 is too high up for her to climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 high	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 climb	mark
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 climb	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 climb	mark
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 high	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	4					high property	tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive	her = she						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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