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Test 8 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters

In a cartoon a dragon calls his older brother «dìdi». What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: call, be · To what, where: older brother, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: In a cartoon a dragon calls his older brother «dìdi».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	nsubj
6	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	obj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 dìdi	punct
11	dìdi	dìdi	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 dìdi	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a dragon		dragon's older brother	a cartoon			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing, dìdi works for any brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 dìdi	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	dìdi	dìdi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 brother	det
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Nothing dìdi					for any brother	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for brother=Beneficiary

Option 2

Dragons have no brothers in Chinese stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stories	case
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Dragons	no brothers		Chinese stories			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient

Option 3

dìdi is a girl's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dìdi	dìdi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 name	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dìdi	a girl's name					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

dìdi is little brother; older is gēge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dìdi	dìdi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	cop
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gēge	nmod:poss
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 brother	amod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gēge	cop
8	gēge	gēge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dìdi	little brother					tree rules
2	is a	present		little brother's gēge					tree 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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