Test 2 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters
You call Ming's mum «mā» at dinner. What would happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: call, happen · To what, where: mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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: You call Ming's mum «mā» at dinner.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ming | case |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 mā | punct |
| 7 | mā | mā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mum | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 mā | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dinner | case |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | You | Ming's mum | at dinner | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent mum=Theme at dinner=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: What would happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It means auntie
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | auntie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent auntie=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It sounds odd: she's your āyí, not your mum
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 | 2 sounds | nsubj |
| 2 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sounds | xcomp |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 āyí | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 āyí | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 āyí | cop |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 āyí | nmod:poss |
| 8 | āyí | āyí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sounds | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mum | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mum | advmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 āyí | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | It | odd property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | she | your āyí and your mum | tree rules |
Option 3
It's the right word for guests to use
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 | 5 word | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 guests | case |
| 7 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 word | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 word | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the right word | for guests | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
She would feel honoured that you're family now
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 | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 family | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 family | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 family | cop |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 honoured | advcl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 feel | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | would | She | now | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | honour | participle | She not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | family | 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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