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title: «his name's Míng Wáng innit, Míng first» Which is right? — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: «his name's Míng Wáng innit, Míng first» Which is right? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Names and "how old are you?"

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«his name's Míng Wáng innit, Míng first» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Wáng innit, his · **What happens:** be, name

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t5:1
# text = «his name's Míng Wáng innit, Míng first» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | his name's Wáng innit |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** *in a quote* |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, the family name Wáng comes first: Wáng Míng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t5:o1:1
# text = No, the family name Wáng comes first: Wáng Míng
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the family name | Wáng Míng |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, Chinese names always go given name first, like ours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t5:o2:1
# text = Yes, Chinese names always go given name first, like ours
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Chinese names | given name |  |  |  | like ours; always, first *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, Míng is the family name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t5:o3:1
# text = Yes, Míng is the family name
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	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 | **is a** | present | Míng | the family name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it's Wang-Ming-Wang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t5:o4:1
# text = No, it's Wang-Ming-Wang
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | Wang and Ming and Wang |  |  |  |  | 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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