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Test 10 · ★ · Mandarin compared with English

Your dad says "long time no see is definitely Chinese, end of." What should you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, long time no see, you · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 34 «Mandarin compared with English» of the language 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: Your dad says "long time no see is definitely Chinese, end of."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Chinese	punct
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 see	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	compound
7	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	compound
8	see	see	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Chinese	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Chinese	cop
10	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	11 Chinese	advmod
11	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Chinese	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 end	case
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Chinese	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Chinese	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	long time no see					chinese, definitely 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.

Sentence 2: What should you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He's right, it's proven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proven	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 proven	nsubj:pass
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 proven	aux:pass
7	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	prove	present · passive		it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

It's definitely from Australia

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	5 Australia	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Australia	cop
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	5 Australia	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might be, but experts still argue about it

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 be	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 argue	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 argue	cc
6	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 argue	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 argue	advmod
8	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 be	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	might	It						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	present	experts				still	about it	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

It's definitely from a TV show

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	7 show	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	cop
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	7 show	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 show	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 show	det
6	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	compound
7	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			a TV show		definitely 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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