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What would a real kid say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon kid, real kid · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** zǎoshang, 4 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 of lesson 1 «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the Chinese street 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cartoon kid says zǎoshang hǎo at 4 in the afternoon. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t8:1 # text = A cartoon kid says zǎoshang hǎo at 4 in the afternoon. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 zǎoshang zǎoshang X FW Foreign=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon kid | zǎoshang | | 4 in the afternoon | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zǎoshang=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 would a real kid say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t8:2 # text = What would a real kid say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a real kid | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} míngtiān jiàn ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t8:o1:1 # text = míngtiān jiàn 1 míngtiān míngtiān NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 jiàn jiàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} wǎn'ān ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t8:o2:1 # text = wǎn'ān 1 wǎn'ān wǎn'ān NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} nǐ hǎo ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t8:o3:1 # text = nǐ hǎo 1 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} zǎo ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t8:o4:1 # text = zǎo 1 zǎo zǎo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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