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title: What would happen if you called Ming's grandad «Xiǎo Wáng»? — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you called Ming's grandad «Xiǎo Wáng»? Test 6 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 6 · Names and "how old are you?"

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What would happen if you called Ming's grandad «Xiǎo Wáng»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, call · **To what, where:** grandad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t6:1
# text = What would happen if you called Ming's grandad «Xiǎo Wáng»?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Xiǎo	Xiǎo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  | Ming's grandad |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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It means «grandad»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t6:o1:1
# text = It means «grandad»
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It | grandad |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandad=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He would be delighted to feel so young again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t6:o2:1
# text = He would be delighted to feel so young again
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  | again | young *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It means «hello»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t6:o3:1
# text = It means «hello»
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would sound very wrong; Xiǎo is for younger people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:5-names-and-how-old:t6:o4:1
# text = It would sound very wrong; Xiǎo is for younger people
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Xiǎo	Xiǎo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would | It |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Xiǎo |  |  |  |  | for younger people | 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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