--- title: In a cartoon a girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics description: In a cartoon a girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game is ruined. What would be fair? Test 10 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [In the playground: come on, your turn!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/) / t10 # Test 10 · In the playground: come on, your turn! In a cartoon a girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game is ruined. What would be fair? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** grab, yell, ruin, be · **To what, where:** ball, cartoon, wǒ le, game This is test 10 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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/13-in-the-playground/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game is ruined. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t10:1 # text = In a cartoon a girl grabs the ball yelling «gāi wǒ le!» and the game is ruined. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 yelling yell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 13 dep _ _ 12 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 13 compound _ _ 13 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 ruined ruin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | present | a girl | the ball | | a cartoon | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | a girl *not said here* | wǒ le | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=Topic | | 3 | **ruin** | present · passive | | the game | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 be fair? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t10:2 # text = What would be fair? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Grab harder next time ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t10:o1:1 # text = Grab harder next time 1 Grab grab NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Run away with the ball ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t10:o2:1 # text = Run away with the ball 1 Run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with the ball; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with ball=Material | ### Option 3 {#o3} Shout zǒu! at the others ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t10:o3:1 # text = Shout zǒu! at the others 1 Shout shout VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 zǒu zǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | zǒu | | the others | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zǒu=Topic | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Hand up, «gāi wǒ le», and wait ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t10:o4:1 # text = Hand up, «gāi wǒ le», and wait 1 Hand hand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 7 dep _ _ 6 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 7 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hand up** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. - ← previous: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/t9/) - next →: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/t11/) - ↑ back to [In the playground: come on, your turn!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/)