Test 8 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand
Ming says «liù liù liù!» after you score. What does he mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming, you · What happens: say, liù, score, mean · To what, where: liù liù · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Ming says «liù liù liù!» after you score.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 liù | punct |
| 4 | liù | liù | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | liù | liù | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 liù | amod |
| 6 | liù | liù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 liù | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 liù | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 liù | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 score | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 score | nsubj |
| 11 | score | score | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 liù | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Ming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | liù in a quote | past | liù liù | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | score | present | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 does he mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | Ming | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
You're cheating!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cheating | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheating | aux |
| 3 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheating | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | present · progressive | You | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Six goals to me!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 goals | nummod |
| 2 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 goals | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 goals | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
You're so good!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | good property | tree rules |
Option 4
Game over!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Game | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Game | punct |
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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