--- title: A nanny looks after Ming's little sister. What does Ming call her? — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how… · tree and pragmatics description: A nanny looks after Ming's little sister. What does Ming call her? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el… A nanny looks after Ming's little sister. What does Ming call her? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nanny, Ming · **What happens:** look, call · **To what, where:** nanny · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A nanny looks after Ming's little sister. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t8:1 # text = A nanny looks after Ming's little sister. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 nanny nanny NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a nanny | | | | after Ming's little sister | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 call her? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t8:2 # text = What does Ming call her? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · do-support | Ming | nanny | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Result | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} āyí ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t8:o1:1 # text = āyí 1 āyí āyí X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} nǎinai ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t8:o2:1 # text = nǎinai 1 nǎinai nǎinai X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} jiějie ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t8:o3:1 # text = jiějie 1 jiějie jiějie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} lǎoshī ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:10-grandparents-aunties-uncles:t8:o4:1 # text = lǎoshī 1 lǎoshī lǎoshī NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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