Test 6 · Names and "how old are you?"

What would happen if you called Ming's grandad «Xiǎo Wáng»?

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

This is test 6 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grandad	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ming	case
9	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Wáng	punct
11	Xiǎo	Xiǎo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wáng	compound
12	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grandad	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Wáng	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call a condition, not said to happen	past	you		Ming's grandad				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient

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

It means «grandad»

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	_	4 grandad	punct
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 grandad	punct

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

Option 2

He would be delighted to feel so young again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feel	mark
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 young	advmod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He					delighted property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	He not said here				again	young property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It means «hello»

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	_	4 hello	punct
4	hello	hello	INTJ	_	2 means	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 hello	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 NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would sound very wrong; Xiǎo is for younger people

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	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wrong	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
7	Xiǎo	Xiǎo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					wrong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	Xiǎo					for younger people	tree rules

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