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title: You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy. How… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how… · tree and pragmatics
description: You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy. How might it look? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 10 «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

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You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy. How might it look?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, word · **What happens:** walk, be, look

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 10 «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t2:1
# text = You walk past Ming's grandad without a word because you're shy.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | You |  |  |  |  | past Ming's grandad; without a word | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past grandad=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How might it look?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t2:2
# text = How might it look?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | might | word |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Like you know him well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t2:o1:1
# text = Like you know him well
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you | him *= he* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A bit rude; say yéye hǎo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t2:o2:1
# text = A bit rude; say yéye hǎo
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	yéye	yéye	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent yéye=Theme hǎo=Manner |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Normal, nobody greets elders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t2:o3:1
# text = Normal, nobody greets elders
1	Normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	greets	greet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | nobody | elders |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elder=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Very polite and quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t2:o4:1
# text = Very polite and quiet
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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