Test 3 · Colours

«I'm doing my name in red pen, looks sick» Why might Ming's mum stop you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, mum, my · What happens: do, look, stop, name · To what, where: name, red pen, you

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pen	case
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pen	amod
9	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looks	punct
11	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	parataxis
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looks	xcomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 looks	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 stop	advmod
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stop	aux
16	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 mum	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Ming	case
18	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stop	nsubj
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 looks	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 stop	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	I	my name	red pen		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality
2	look in a quote	present				sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	stop	might	Ming's mum	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector you=Eventuality
4	name in a quote		my				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is too bright and hurts the eyes

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	4 bright	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 bright	advmod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hurts	cc
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eyes	det
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					bright property	tree rules
2	hurt	present		the eyes					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Patient

Option 2

Red pen smudges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smudges	amod
2	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smudges	compound
3	smudges	smudge	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Red pen is only for teachers to mark with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pen	amod
2	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teachers	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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
7	to	to	PART	_	8 mark	mark
8	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 teachers	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 mark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Red pen					for teachers	tree rules
2	mark	to-infinitive							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Names in red ink were once for the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 once	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 ink	case
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ink	amod
4	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Names	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 once	cop
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dead	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dead	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 once	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Names in red ink					for the dead; once property	tree rules

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