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Test 2 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy. How might it look?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, word · What happens: walk, be, look

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 10 «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	6 grandad	case
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grandad	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Ming	case
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 word	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 shy	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 shy	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 shy	cop
13	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walk	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	You					past Ming's grandad; without a word	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past grandad=Trajectory
2	is	present	you					shy property	tree rules

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: How might it look?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 look	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	might	word						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Like you know him well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	obj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	him = he				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A bit rude; say yéye hǎo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl:unmarked
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bit	amod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 bit	punct
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	yéye	yéye	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	obj
7	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a bit					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent yéye=Theme hǎo=Manner

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Normal, nobody greets elders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nobody	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Normal	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 greets	nsubj
4	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	nobody	elders					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elder=Theme

Option 4

Very polite and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 polite	advmod
2	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 quiet	cc
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 polite	conj

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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