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Test 7 · Names and "how old are you?"

Ming says «wǒ jiù suì» with a falling jiù. What did you hear?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming, you · What happens: say, fall, hear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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 «wǒ jiù suì» with a falling jiù.

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	_	4 wǒ	punct
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	2 says	ccomp
5	jiù	jiù	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
6	suì	suì	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wǒ	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 jiù	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jiù	det
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 jiù	amod
11	jiù	jiù	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ming					with a falling jiù	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with jiù=Manner
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 did you hear?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hear	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	you						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

He is nine, it's the very same thing

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	3 nine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nine	cop
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thing	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	nine and the same thing					tree rules
2	is a	present	it	the same thing					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He said his name

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	his name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

jiù is «just/then», not nine (jiǔ)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jiù	jiù	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 just/then	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 just/then	cop
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 just/then	punct
4	just/then	just/then	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 just/then	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nine	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 nine	advmod
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 just/then	appos
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 jiǔ	punct
10	jiǔ	jiǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nine	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 jiǔ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	jiù	just/then					tree rules

Option 4

He is ten

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	3 ten	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ten	cop
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	ten					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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