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title: «wǒ jiǎo Sam» with a dip — what does Ming tease you about? — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: «wǒ jiǎo Sam» with a dip — what does Ming tease you about? Test 10 of lesson 5 «Names and "how old are you?"» 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 10 · Names and "how old are you?"

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«wǒ jiǎo Sam» with a dip — what does Ming tease you about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ming · **What happens:** tease · **To what, where:** Sam

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This is test 10 of lesson 5 «Names and "how old are you?"» 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/5-names-and-how-old/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t10:1
# text = «wǒ jiǎo Sam» with a dip — what does Ming tease you about?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
3	jiǎo	jiǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dip	dip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | present · do-support | Ming | Sam with a dip |  |  |  | about *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Dipping jiǎo is foot, not «am called»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t10:o1:1
# text = Dipping jiǎo is foot, not «am called»
1	Dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	jiǎo	jiǎo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund |  | jiǎo |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jiǎo=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Dipping | foot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **call** *in a quote* | participle · passive | foot *not said here* | am |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You said goodbye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t10:o2:1
# text = You said goodbye
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | You | goodbye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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You said your age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t10:o3:1
# text = You said your age
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Sam is not a Chinese name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t10:o4:1
# text = Sam is not a Chinese name
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Sam | a Chinese name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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