Test 4 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters
Ming has no brothers or sisters. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: have, be · To what, where: brothers
This is test 4 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: Ming has no brothers or sisters.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 sisters | cc |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brothers | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ming | no brothers or sisters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He is a dúshēngzǐ, and that's not sad or strange
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 | 4 dúshēngzǐ | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dúshēngzǐ | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dúshēngzǐ | det |
| 4 | dúshēngzǐ | dúshēngzǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sad | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sad | cc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sad | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sad | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sad | advmod |
| 10 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dúshēngzǐ | parataxis |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 strange | cc |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sad | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a dúshēngzǐ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | that | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
He must be very lonely all the time
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 | 5 lonely | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lonely | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lonely | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lonely | advmod |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lonely | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | He | time | lonely property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only children are not allowed in China
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 children | advmod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 China | case |
| 7 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | children | China | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Something must be wrong with his family, surely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrong | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 surely | punct |
| 9 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 wrong | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Something | with his family; wrong property | tree rules |
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