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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.

nsubjdetobjccconjpunctrootMingPROPNhasVERBnoDETbrothersNOUNorCCONJsistersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MingMingPROPNNumber=Sing2 hasnsubj
2hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3nonoDETPronType=Neg4 brothersdet
4brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur2 hasobj
5ororCCONJ_6 sisterscc
6sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur4 brothersconj
7..PUNCT_2 haspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentMingno brothers or sistersvn 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?

nsubjcoppunctrootWhatPRONisAUXtrueADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int3 truensubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 truecop
3truetrueADJDegree=Posrootroot
4??PUNCT_3 truepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresenttrue propertytree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is a dúshēngzǐ, and that's not sad or strange

nsubjcopdetpunctccnsubjcopadvmodparataxisccconjrootHePRONisAUXaDETdúshēngzǐNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRON'sAUXnotPARTsadADJorCCONJstrangeADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 dúshēngzǐnsubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 dúshēngzǐcop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 dúshēngzǐdet
4dúshēngzǐdúshēngzǐNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5,,PUNCT_10 sadpunct
6andandCCONJ_10 sadcc
7thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 sadnsubj
8'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 sadcop
9notnotPARTPolarity=Neg10 sadadvmod
10sadsadADJDegree=Pos4 dúshēngzǐparataxis
11ororCCONJ_12 strangecc
12strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos10 sadconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentHea dúshēngzǐtree rules
2not ispresentthatsad propertytree rules
3bethat not said heretree rules

Option 2

He must be very lonely all the time

nsubjauxcopadvmoddet:predetdetobl:unmarkedrootHePRONmustAUXbeAUXveryADVlonelyADJallDETtheDETtimeNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 lonelynsubj
2mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin5 lonelyaux
3bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf5 lonelycop
4veryveryADV_5 lonelyadvmod
5lonelylonelyADJDegree=Posrootroot
6allallDETPronType=Tot8 timedet:predet
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 timedet
8timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing5 lonelyobl:unmarked
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ismustHetimelonely propertytree rules

Option 3

Only children are not allowed in China

advmodnsubj:passaux:passadvmodcaseoblrootOnlyADVchildrenNOUNareAUXnotPARTallowedVERBinADPChinaPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnlyonlyADV_2 childrenadvmod
2childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur5 allowednsubj:pass
3arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 allowedaux:pass
4notnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 allowedadvmod
5allowedallowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6ininADP_7 Chinacase
7ChinaChinaPROPNNumber=Sing5 allowedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not allowpresent · passivechildrenChinavn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

Something must be wrong with his family, surely

nsubjauxcopcasenmod:possoblpunctconjrootSomethingPRONmustAUXbeAUXwrongADJwithADPhisPRONfamilyNOUN,PUNCTsurelyADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SomethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind4 wrongnsubj
2mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin4 wrongaux
3bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf4 wrongcop
4wrongwrongADJDegree=Posrootroot
5withwithADP_7 familycase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 familynmod:poss
7familyfamilyNOUNNumber=Sing4 wrongobl
8,,PUNCT_9 surelypunct
9surelysurelyADV_4 wrongconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ismustSomethingwith his family; wrong propertytree 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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