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Test 7 · Colours

Ming jumps out shouting «hēi!». What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: jump out, shout, mean · To what, where: hēi

This is test 7 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: Ming jumps out shouting «hēi!».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumps	nsubj
2	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 jumps	compound:prt
4	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 jumps	advcl
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 hēi	punct
6	hēi	hēi	X	Foreign=Yes	4 shouting	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 hēi	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 hēi	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	present	Ming						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	gerund	Ming not said here	hēi					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hēi=Topic

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

It's dark!

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	3 dark	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					dark property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A cheeky «hey!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cheeky	det
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 hey	punct
4	hey	hey	INTJ	_	2 cheeky	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cheeky	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 cheeky	punct

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

Option 3

Goodbye!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Goodbye	punct

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

Option 4

Black!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Black	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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