Test 5 · Names and "how old are you?"

«his name's Míng Wáng innit, Míng first» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wáng innit, his · What happens: be, name

This is test 5 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	_	7 innit	punct
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 innit	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 name	case
5	Míng	Míng	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wáng	compound
6	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 innit	compound
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Míng	punct
9	Míng	Míng	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 innit	appos
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 »	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
12	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	his name's Wáng innit					right property	tree rules
2	name in a quote		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

No, the family name Wáng comes first: Wáng Míng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 name	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	compound
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
6	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	appos
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 comes	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct
10	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Míng	compound
11	Míng	Míng	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the family name	Wáng Míng				first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, Chinese names always go given name first, like ours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 names	amod
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 name	amod
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ours	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 ours	case
12	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Chinese names	given name				like ours; always, first property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme
2	give	participle							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, Míng is the family name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 name	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Míng	Míng	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 name	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 name	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 name	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	compound
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Míng	the family name					tree rules

Option 4

No, it's Wang-Ming-Wang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Wang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Wang	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Wang	cop
5	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Ming	punct
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wang	conj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Wang	punct
9	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	Wang and Ming and Wang					tree rules

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