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Test 2 · Colours

You bring white flowers to Ming's birthday. What might his granny think?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, granny · What happens: bring, think · To what, where: white flowers

This is test 2 of lesson 8 «Colours» 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: You bring white flowers to Ming's birthday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 bring	nsubj
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	8 birthday	mark
6	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 birthday	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Ming	case
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bring	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	You	white flowers					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=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 might his granny think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 granny	nmod:poss
4	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	might	Ming's granny						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1

White is the luckiest colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 colour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colour	det
4	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 colour	amod
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	White	the luckiest colour					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

White means «I love you»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	White						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present	I	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

White is for funerals, not parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 funerals	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funerals	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 funerals	case
4	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 parties	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 parties	advmod
7	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 funerals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	White					for funerals and parties	tree rules

Option 4

White flowers are only for teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teachers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 teachers	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 teachers	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	White flowers					for teachers	tree rules

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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