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Test 11 · The big language quiz

You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. What did you really say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: mǎ, Mandarin teacher, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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: You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mǎ	punct
4	mǎ	mǎ	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mǎ	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 teacher	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teacher	nmod:poss
8	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 teacher	compound
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 meant	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 meant	nsubj
12	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	advcl
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meant	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	You	mǎ	your Mandarin teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mǎ=Topic to teacher=Recipient
2	mean	past	you	mother					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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 you really say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Scold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scold	scold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Hemp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hemp	hemp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horse	horse	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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