Test 8 · ★ · Mandarin compared with English
Oscar wants to ask "you good?" in Mandarin. What does he say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oscar · What happens: want, ask, say · To what, where: Mandarin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Oscar wants to ask "you good?" in Mandarin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ask | mark |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 good | nsubj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Mandarin | case |
| 11 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Oscar | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | Oscar not said here | Mandarin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 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 | present · do-support | Oscar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
你好吗? (nǐ hǎo ma?)
Sentence 1: 你好吗?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 你好吗 | 你好吗 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 你好吗 | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: (nǐ hǎo ma?)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 ma | punct |
| 2 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ma | dep |
| 3 | hǎo | hǎo | X | _ | 4 ma | compound |
| 4 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ma | punct |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 ma | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
两本书 (liǎng běn shū)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 两本书 | 两本书 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liǎng | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 liǎng | punct |
| 3 | liǎng | liǎng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | běn | běn | X | _ | 5 shū | compound |
| 5 | shū | shū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 liǎng | obj |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 liǎng | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liǎng | gerund | 两本书 | běn shū | tree rules |
Option 3
人山人海 (rén shān rén hǎi)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 人山人海 | 人山人海 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 rén | punct |
| 3 | rén | rén | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 人山人海 | appos |
| 4 | shān | shān | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 人山人海 | dep |
| 5 | rén | rén | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 人山人海 | flat:foreign |
| 6 | hǎi | hǎi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 人山人海 | dep |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 人山人海 | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
好久不见 (hǎo jiǔ bú jiàn)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 好久不见 | 好久不见 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 jiàn | punct |
| 3 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 jiàn | nsubj |
| 4 | jiǔ | jiǔ | X | _ | 6 jiàn | compound |
| 5 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 jiàn | compound |
| 6 | jiàn | jiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 好久不见 | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 jiàn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jiàn | hǎo | 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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