--- title: Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud. What does… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud. What does his granny say? Test 11 of lesson 18 «The body» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/18-the-body/t11/) [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/) / [The body](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/18-the-body/) / t11 # Test 11 · The body Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud. What does his granny say? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ears, teacher, granny · **What happens:** turn, read, say · **To what, where:** poem · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 of lesson 18 «The body» 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/18-the-body/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t11:1 # text = Lín's ears turn red when the teacher reads his poem aloud. 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Lín's ears | | | | | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **read** | present | the teacher | teacher's poem | | | | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic | 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 his granny say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t11:2 # text = What does his granny say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | teacher's granny | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} nǐ de tóu téng le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t11:o1:1 # text = nǐ de tóu téng le 1 nǐ nǐ X FW _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 tóu tóu X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 téng téng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **téng** | gerund | | le | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} nǐ de ěrduo hóng le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t11:o2:1 # text = nǐ de ěrduo hóng le 1 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 3 amod _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 ěrduo ěrduo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 hóng hóng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hóng** | gerund | nǐ ěrduo *not said here* | le | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} nǐ de bízi hóng le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t11:o3:1 # text = nǐ de bízi hóng le 1 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 bízi bízi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 hóng hóng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hóng** | gerund | | le | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} nǐ de pìgu téng le ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t11:o4:1 # text = nǐ de pìgu téng le 1 nǐ nǐ X FW _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 pìgu pìgu X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 téng téng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **téng** | gerund | | le | | | | | 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. 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