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Test 2 · Names and "how old are you?"

You answer «nín guì xìng?» with «wǒ guì xìng Smith». Why do adults smile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, nín, adults · What happens: answer, xìng, smile · To what, where: Smith · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: You answer «nín guì xìng?» with «wǒ guì xìng Smith».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 answer	nsubj
2	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 nín	punct
4	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	6 xìng	nsubj
5	guì	guì	X	Foreign=Yes	4 nín	flat:foreign
6	xìng	xìng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 answer	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 xìng	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 xìng	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wǒ	case
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 wǒ	punct
11	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	6 xìng	conj
12	guì	guì	X	Foreign=Yes	13 xìng	advmod
13	xìng	xìng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 wǒ	advcl
14	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 xìng	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 Smith	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: ask	present	You						tree rules
2	xìng in a quote	gerund	nín						tree rules
3	xìng in a quote	gerund	nín not said here	Smith					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.

Sentence 2: Why do adults smile?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 smile	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smile	aux
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smile	nsubj
4	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smile	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	present · do-support	adults						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

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

You called your own name honourable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	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	5 name	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 name	amod
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
6	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	You	your own name				honourable property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	name		your						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 «Smith» with a tone

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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Smith	punct
4	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Smith	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tone	det
8	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You					with a tone	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with tone=Manner

Option 4

You told them your age instead of your name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 age	nmod:poss
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 name	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	You	your age	them = they			instead your name	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient age=Topic
2	name		your						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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