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Test 5 · ★ · Mandarin compared with English

Your mum, a big gamer back in the day, says "be gung ho, charge in!" What does she mean in English today?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, gamer · What happens: say, gung, charge, mean · To what, where: ho · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 mum, a big gamer back in the day, says "be gung ho, charge in!"

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 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gamer	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gamer	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gamer	amod
6	gamer	gamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 gamer	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mum	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 gung	punct
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 gung	aux:pass
15	gung	gung	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 says	ccomp
16	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gung	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 charge	punct
18	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 charge	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 charge	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 charge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Your mum and a big gamer						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gung in a quote	infinitive · passive		ho					tree rules
3	charge in a quote	infinitive							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 she mean in English today?

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 English	case
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obl
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obl:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	gamer				today	in English	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in english=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Be very eager, maybe too eager

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 eager	cop
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 eager	advmod
3	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eager	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 eager	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 eager	advmod
7	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eager	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					eager property	tree rules
2	be		you not said here					maybe property	tree rules

Option 2

Go home now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Work in total silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
3	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silence	amod
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Work	nmod

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

Option 4

Be very careful and slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 careful	cop
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 careful	advmod
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slow	cc
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 careful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					careful property	tree rules
2	be		you not said here						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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