Test 9 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

«there's like 30 people at new year and I don't know half of them» What are they?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, people · What happens: be, not know · To what, where: half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 's	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 's	conj
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 know	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 half	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 know	ccomp
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 What	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present			there	like 30 people at new year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I	half of people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus
3	is a	present	people				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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

qīnqi, relatives; Ming's mum whispers their titles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	qīnqi	qīnqi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 relatives	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 relatives	punct
3	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 whispers	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 whispers	punct
5	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ming	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whispers	nsubj
8	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 titles	nmod:poss
10	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 whispers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	qīnqi relatives	relatives's titles					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Topic
2	title		relatives = relative						nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Strangers from the street who came in for dumplings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 street	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Strangers	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dumplings	case
9	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	Strangers from the street					for dumplings	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

All teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 teachers	det
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

All neighbours from the block, invited for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 invited	nsubj:pass
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 block	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 block	det
5	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 neighbours	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 invited	punct
7	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	participle · passive		all neighbours from the block				for food	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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