Test 10 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters
«nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child. What do you say?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: only child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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
Sentence 1: «nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma | punct |
| 2 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 ma | nsubj |
| 3 | yǒu | yǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 ma | nsubj |
| 4 | xiōngdì | xiōngdì | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 ma | dep |
| 5 | jiěmèi | jiěmèi | X | _ | 6 ma | compound |
| 6 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 child | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 child | cop |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 13 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 child | amod |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ma | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a only child | 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 do you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
duì
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | duì | duì | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
méiyǒu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | méiyǒu | méiyǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
bú yào
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 bú | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
shì
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shì | shì | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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