Test 7 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters
Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl. What does Ming's little sister call her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: big cousin, little sister · What happens: be, call · To what, where: 15, Ming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cousin | amod |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 15 | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 15 | cop |
| 7 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 15 | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 15 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your friend's big cousin | 15 and a girl | 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.
Sentence 2: What does Ming's little sister call her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 call | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | aux |
| 3 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ming | case |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | Ming's little sister | Ming | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
jiějie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jiějie | jiějie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
mèimei
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mèimei | mèimei | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
āyí
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | āyí | āyí | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
dìdi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dìdi | dìdi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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