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Test 4 · Names and "how old are you?"

Ming says «my dad, she's at work». What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: say, be, go on · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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: Ming says «my dad, she's at work».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 work	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 work	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dad	parataxis
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ming						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Ming			work			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: What is going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

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

Mandarin tā is he and she, so he slipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tā	compound
2	tā	tā	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 he	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 he	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slipped	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 she	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 he	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slipped	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 slipped	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slipped	nsubj
10	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mandarin tā	he					tree rules
2	slip	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Ming means his mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Ming	Ming's mum					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Topic

Option 3

It's a rude joke

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	5 joke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rude joke					tree rules

Option 4

Ming doesn't really know who his dad is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	5 know	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 who	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	Ming						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	Ming's dad						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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