Test 3 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters

«haha ming's mum called him bǎobǎo, let's all call him baby» What is kind?

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

This is test 3 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	_	6 called	punct
2	haha	haha	INTJ	_	6 called	discourse
3	ming	ming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 ming	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	bǎobǎo	bǎobǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	6 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	advcl
11	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 call	advmod
13	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 let	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 call	obj
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 baby	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 kind	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 kind	cop
19	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 baby	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	past	ming's mum		him = he		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	let in a quote	infinitive	ming's mum not said here	's			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	call in a quote	present	ming's mum not said here		him = he	all property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	present	baby			kind property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Make a song about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	a song				about song	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset song=Product

Option 2

Call him bǎobǎo all week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	bǎobǎo	bǎobǎo	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		him = he		week	bǎobǎo property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Tell the whole class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 class	amod
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the whole class					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Don't tease him with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tease	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tease	advmod
3	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tease	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tease	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tease	imperative · do-support	you not said here	him = he				with it	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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