Test 11 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters
«bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad. What did Ming hear?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Ming · What happens: shout, mean, hear · To what, where: dad
This is test 11 of lesson 9 «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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: «bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 bā | punct |
| 2 | bā | bā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shout | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 bā | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 bā | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 shout | nsubj |
| 6 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shout | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 level | cc |
| 10 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 high | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 meaning | punct |
| 12 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shout | advcl |
| 13 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meaning | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shout | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | you not said here | dad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=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 did Ming hear?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 hear | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 3 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | Ming | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hello
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello | hello | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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