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Test 3 · ★ · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met

Lin: «my Mandarin is so mid, I'm never trying again lol». What's the better thought?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Mandarin, I, better thought · What happens: lin, be, not try

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 513 «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday 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: Lin: «my Mandarin is so mid, I'm never trying again lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lin	lin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Mandarin	nmod:poss
5	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mid	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mid	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 mid	advmod
8	mid	mid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Lin	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trying	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 trying	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trying	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 trying	advmod
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 mid	parataxis
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 trying	advmod
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 trying	discourse
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 trying	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lin	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	my Mandarin					mid property	tree rules
3	not try in a quote	present · progressive	I				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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's the better thought?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thought	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thought	amod
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better thought						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Mandarin can't be learned outside China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 learned	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 learned	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	aux:pass
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADP	_	7 China	case
7	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 learned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can · passive		Mandarin				outside China	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2

Only perfect speakers should ever try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 speakers	advmod
2	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speakers	amod
3	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 try	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 try	advmod
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	should	perfect speakers				ever		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trying matters more than getting it right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 matters	advmod
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	5 getting	mark
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 matters	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 getting	obj
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	matter	present							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	get	gerund		it				right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Nainai will be cross with every mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nainai	Nainai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cross	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cross	cop
4	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mistake	det
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	Nainai					with every mistake; cross property	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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