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title: Identify the term by which a child customarily addresses an elder br… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the term by which a child customarily addresses an elder brother. Exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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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# Exam question 1 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters

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Identify the term by which a child customarily addresses an elder brother.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** identify, address · **To what, where:** term, elder brother

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:e1:1
# text = Identify the term by which a child customarily addresses an elder brother.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	addresses	address	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **address** | present | a child |  | a elder brother |  |  | customarily *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Destination |

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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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mèimei

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:e1:o1:1
# text = mèimei
1	mèimei	mèimei	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bàba

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:e1:o2:1
# text = bàba
1	bàba	bàba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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dìdi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:e1:o3:1
# text = dìdi
1	dìdi	dìdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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gēge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:e1:o4:1
# text = gēge
1	gēge	gēge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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