Test 8 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…
A nanny looks after Ming's little sister. What does Ming call her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nanny, Ming · What happens: look, call · To what, where: nanny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: A nanny looks after Ming's little sister.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nanny | det |
| 2 | nanny | nanny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 5 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ming | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a nanny | after Ming's little sister | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 does Ming call her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | Ming | nanny | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
āyí
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | āyí | āyí | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nǎinai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nǎinai | nǎinai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
jiějie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jiějie | jiějie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
lǎoshī
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lǎoshī | lǎoshī | NOUN | 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.
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