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Test 9 · Names and "how old are you?"

In a cartoon an English boy asks a teacher «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?». What is off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: English boy · What happens: ask · To what, where: nǐ, teacher, cartoon

This is test 9 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: In a cartoon an English boy asks a teacher «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	nsubj
7	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
11	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	7 asks	obj
12	jiào	jiào	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat:foreign
13	shénme	shénme	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat:foreign
14	míngzi	míngzi	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat:foreign
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a English boy	nǐ	a teacher	a cartoon			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 off?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 off	cop
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 What	compound:prt
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, it's the most polite way to ask a teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 way	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 way	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 polite	advmod
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 teacher	det
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	the polite way					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			a teacher				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 2

He said goodbye

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	goodbye	goodbye	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	goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He asked her age

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 age	nmod:poss
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He	her age					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Too direct to a grown-up; adults ask you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 direct	advmod
2	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 a	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 direct	conj
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 a	acl
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ask	nsubj
10	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 direct	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	adults		you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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