Test 5 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters

«ask his dad, lǎobà, can we go park» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, we · What happens: ask, go, be · To what, where: dad, park · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	_	2 ask	punct
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lǎobà	punct
6	lǎobà	lǎobà	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dad	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	conj
11	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 wrong	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wrong	cop
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ask	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	imperative	you not said here		his dad and lǎobà		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	go in a quote	can	we	park			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location park=Theme
3	is	present				wrong 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

lǎobà means grandad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lǎobà	lǎobà	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	lǎobà	grandad					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandad=Topic

Option 2

lǎobà is what kids call teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lǎobà	lǎobà	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lǎobà						tree rules
2	call	present	kids		teachers				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 3

Nothing, it's polite for any friend's dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 polite	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 dad	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dad	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 friend	case
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 polite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					for any friend's dad; polite property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

lǎobà is for your own dad; say shūshu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lǎobà	lǎobà	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dad	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 dad	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dad	amod
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 dad	parataxis
9	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	8 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lǎobà					for your own dad	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		shūshu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shūshu=Topic

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