Test 5 · Colours

«ugh his little bro wants pink, boys can't like pink» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little bro, boys · What happens: want, not like, be · To what, where: pink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	_	6 wants	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 wants	discourse
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bro	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bro	amod
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wants	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 like	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wants	parataxis
13	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 like	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 like	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	his little bro		pink property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	not like in a quote	can	boys	pink		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

That's old thinking, not a rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 thinking	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thinking	amod
4	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rule	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 rule	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rule	det
8	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	old thinking					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it is a Chinese law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 law	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 law	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 law	det
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 law	amod
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a Chinese law					tree rules

Option 3

No, pink is unlucky for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unlucky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unlucky	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unlucky	cop
5	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 unlucky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	pink					for everyone; unlucky property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, pink is for grannies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 grannies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grannies	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grannies	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 grannies	case
6	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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