Test 5 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…
In a cartoon a kid calls the old man in the park «gēge». What fits better?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: call, fit · To what, where: old man, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a kid calls the old man in the park «gēge».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | nsubj |
| 6 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 park | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 park | det |
| 12 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | obl |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 gēge | punct |
| 14 | gēge | gēge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 park | appos |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 gēge | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | a kid | the old man | a cartoon | in the park | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
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 fits better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 fits | nsubj |
| 2 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 fits | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | good property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
dìdi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dìdi | dìdi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yéye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yéye | yéye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
lǎobà
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lǎobà | lǎobà | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
bàba
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bàba | bàba | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/t5/