Test 1 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters

«ming's sister calls him gēge not Ming, weird» Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: call · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 9 «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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	_	5 calls	punct
2	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sister	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 ming	case
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	nsubj
5	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calls	obj
7	gēge	gēge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Ming	compound
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 Ming	advmod
9	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 calls	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weird	punct
11	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Ming	amod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 weird	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 Ming	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	present	ming's sister		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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

gēge means «silly», she's teasing him lol, it's banter

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gēge	gēge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 silly	punct
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 silly	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 teasing	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 teasing	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 teasing	aux
9	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 teasing	obj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 teasing	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 banter	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 banter	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 banter	cop
15	banter	banter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	gēge	silly	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silly=Topic
2	tease	present · progressive	gēge	him = he	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is a	present	it	banter	tree rules

Option 2

It's a nickname for Ming only

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	4 nickname	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nickname	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nickname	det
4	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Ming	case
6	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nickname	nmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	4 nickname	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a nickname				for Ming	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She forgot his name, she's only little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	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 forgot	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 little	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 little	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 little	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 little	advmod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forgot	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	She	his name		tree rules
2	is	present	she		little property	tree rules
3	name		his = he			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Younger ones call an older brother gēge, like a title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	nsubj
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gēge	det
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 gēge	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gēge	compound
7	gēge	gēge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 title	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 title	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 title	det
11	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Younger ones	a older brother gēge				like a title	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gēge=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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