--- title: «lùsè, the road colour lol» What did you mean to say? — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: «lùsè, the road colour lol» What did you mean to say? Test 4 of lesson 8 «Colours» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/8-colours/t4/) [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/) / [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/8-colours/) / t4 # Test 4 · Colours «lùsè, the road colour lol» What did you mean to say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** mean, say · **To what, where:** lùsè · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 of lesson 8 «Colours» 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/8-colours/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:t4:1 # text = «lùsè, the road colour lol» What did you mean to say? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 lùsè lùsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 lol lol INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | past · do-support | you | lùsè | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} huīsè, grey, like a rainy day ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:t4:o1:1 # text = huīsè, grey, like a rainy day 1 huīsè huīsè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} lǜsè, green, with the rounded ü ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:t4:o2:1 # text = lǜsè, green, with the rounded ü 1 lǜsè lǜsè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rounded round VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 ü ü NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **round** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} lánsè, blue, like the sky above ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:t4:o3:1 # text = lánsè, blue, like the sky above 1 lánsè lánsè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 above above ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} hēisè, black ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:t4:o4:1 # text = hēisè, black 1 hēisè hēisè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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