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title: Ming's mum's brother always brings sweets. What is he? — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ming's mum's brother always brings sweets. What is he? Test 4 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

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Ming's mum's brother always brings sweets. What is he?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** bring, be · **To what, where:** sweets

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ming's mum's brother always brings sweets.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t4:1
# text = Ming's mum's brother always brings sweets.
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Ming's mum's brother | sweets |  |  |  | always *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |

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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:* What is he?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t4:2
# text = What is he?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | brother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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bóbo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t4:o1:1
# text = bóbo
1	bóbo	bóbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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jiùjiu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t4:o2:1
# text = jiùjiu
1	jiùjiu	jiùjiu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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gūgu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t4:o3:1
# text = gūgu
1	gūgu	gūgu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yéye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t4:o4:1
# text = yéye
1	yéye	yéye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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