Test 1 · Names and "how old are you?"

«ask his nan nǐ jǐ suì le, it's how you ask age» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, nan · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: nan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 5 «Names and "how old are you?"» 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	_	2 ask	punct
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nan	nmod:poss
4	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	2 ask	obj
6	jǐ	jǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	5 nǐ	flat
7	suì	suì	X	Foreign=Yes	5 nǐ	flat:foreign
8	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	5 nǐ	flat:foreign
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ask	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	cop
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ask	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 ask	nsubj
14	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	advcl
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 wrong	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wrong	cop
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ask	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	imperative	you not said here	his nan		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	nan		ask property	tree rules
3	is	present			wrong 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, it is the perfect way to ask any granny her age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 way	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 granny	det
11	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 age	nmod:poss
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	the perfect way					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		her age	any granny				tree rules

Option 2

You must never ask age in Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Chinese	case
7	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	must	You	age		Chinese			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

Option 3

It means «what's your name»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 name	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 name	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 name	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		your name					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That form is for kids; to her it's nín duō dà niánjì le?

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 form	det
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kids	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kids	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 kids	case
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 duō	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 nín	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nín	nmod:poss
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nín	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nín	cop
11	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	12 duō	flat:foreign
12	duō	duō	X	_	5 kids	appos
13	dà	dà	X	_	12 duō	flat:foreign
14	niánjì	niánjì	X	_	12 duō	flat:foreign
15	le	le	X	_	12 duō	flat:foreign
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kids	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that form					for kids	tree rules

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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