Test 7 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

What would happen if you mixed up bóbo and shūshu for Ming's two uncles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, mix up · To what, where: bóbo

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 mixed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 mixed	nsubj
6	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 mixed	compound:prt
8	bóbo	bóbo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mixed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shūshu	cc
10	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	6 mixed	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 uncles	case
12	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 uncles	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Ming	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 uncles	nummod
15	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shūshu	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mix up a condition, not said to happen	past	you	bóbo					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent bóbo=Beneficiary shūshu=Product

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You'd call one of them auntie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 call	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 auntie	nummod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would	You	one auntie					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent auntie=Recipient

Option 2

You'd call one of them grandad by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 call	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 grandad	nummod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 mistake	case
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would	You		one grandad			by mistake	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You'd mix up who is older than dad, and families care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mix	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mix	aux
3	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 mix	compound:prt
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 older	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 older	cop
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 mix	parataxis
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 dad	case
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 older	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 care	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 care	cc
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 care	nsubj
13	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mix	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mix up	would	You		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present		than dad; old property	tree rules
3	care	present	families		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, they are the same word said two ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ways	nummod
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the same word					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Nothing	two ways					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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