Test 10 · Names and "how old are you?"

«wǒ jiǎo Sam» with a dip — what does Ming tease you about?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: tease · To what, where: Sam

This is test 10 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 wǒ	punct
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	4 Sam	nsubj
3	jiǎo	jiǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	2 wǒ	flat:foreign
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Sam	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 dip	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dip	det
8	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Sam	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 tease	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tease	obj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tease	aux
12	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tease	nsubj
13	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Sam	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tease	obj
15	about	about	ADV	_	13 tease	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Sam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · do-support	Ming	Sam with a dip				about 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 · ✓ the right answer

Dipping jiǎo is foot, not «am called»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dipping	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 foot	csubj
2	jiǎo	jiǎo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dipping	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 foot	cop
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 called	advmod
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	nsubj:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 foot	acl:relcl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 foot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dip	gerund		jiǎo	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jiǎo=Theme
2	is a	present	Dipping	foot	tree rules
3	not call in a quote	participle · passive	foot not said here	am	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

You said goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You	goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 3

You said your age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 age	nmod:poss
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sam is not a Chinese name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 name	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 name	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 name	det
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 name	amod
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Sam	a Chinese name					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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