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Test 8 · Names and "how old are you?"

At the park a lady calls a man «Lǎo Lǐ!». Is she being rude?

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

This is test 8 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: At the park a lady calls a man «Lǎo Lǐ!».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 park	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 park	det
3	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	nsubj
6	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Lǐ	punct
10	Lǎo	Lǎo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Lǐ	compound
11	Lǐ	Lǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 man	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Lǐ	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 Lǐ	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a lady	a man				at the park	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent man=Theme at park=Stimulus

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: Is she being rude?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rude	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it's a swear word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	compound
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, she's calling him old and ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 calling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calling	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 calling	aux
5	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calling	obj
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calling	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ugly	cc
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive	she		him = he			old property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

No, she is his granddaughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 granddaughter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 granddaughter	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 granddaughter	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 granddaughter	nmod:poss
6	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	his granddaughter					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, lǎo here is warm, like «mate»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct
3	lǎo	lǎo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warm	nsubj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lǎo	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 mate	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warm	vocative
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lǎo					mate vocative; warm property	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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