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Test 6 · Colours

You ask for a chéngsè to eat. Why does Ming laugh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Ming · What happens: ask, eat, laugh

This is test 6 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 ask for a chéngsè to eat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 chéngsè	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chéngsè	det
5	chéngsè	chéngsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	advcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	You					for a chéngsè	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	to-infinitive	You not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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: Why does Ming laugh?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 laugh	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · do-support	Ming						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

chéngsè is a rude word in the playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chéngsè	chéngsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 playground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 playground	det
8	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	chéngsè	a rude word		the playground			tree rules

Option 2

chéngsè is a bitter green vegetable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chéngsè	chéngsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 vegetable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vegetable	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vegetable	det
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vegetable	amod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vegetable	amod
6	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	chéngsè	a bitter green vegetable					tree rules

Option 3

chéngsè means a cup of coffee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chéngsè	chéngsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cup	det
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 coffee	case
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cup	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	chéngsè	a cup of coffee					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

chéngsè is the colour; the fruit is chéngzi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chéngsè	chéngsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 chéngzi	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chéngzi	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chéngzi	cop
9	chéngzi	chéngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	chéngsè	the colour and chéngzi					tree rules
2	is a	present	the fruit	chéngzi					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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