--- title: A lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr». What's a… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics description: A lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr». What's a kind answer? Test 9 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 choice was right. --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · In the playground: come on, your turn! A lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr». What's a kind answer? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lonely kid, kind answer · **What happens:** stand, say, be · **To what, where:** edge · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr». ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t9:1 # text = A lonely kid stands at the edge and says «wǒ yě yào wánr». 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 12 yě yě X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ 13 yào yào X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ 14 wánr wán ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | a lonely kid | | | the edge | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a lonely kid *not said here* | | | | | wán *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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's a kind answer? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t9:2 # text = What's a kind answer? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a kind answer | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} lái ba! ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t9:o1:1 # text = lái ba! 1 lái lái X FW Foreign=Yes 2 amod _ _ 2 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} zǒu! ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t9:o2:1 # text = zǒu! 1 zǒu zǒu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} děng yíxià, for ever ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t9:o3:1 # text = děng yíxià, for ever 1 děng děng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 yíxià yíxià PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **děng** | gerund | | yíxià | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} bù xíng! ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t9:o4:1 # text = bù xíng! 1 bù bù X FW Foreign=Yes 2 amod _ _ 2 xíng xíng NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` 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. - ← previous: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/t8/) - next →: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/t10/) - ↑ back to [In the playground: come on, your turn!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/)