--- title: «nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child. What do you say? — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: «nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child. What do you say? Test 10 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/t10/) [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/) / [Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/) / t10 # Test 10 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters «nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child. What do you say? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** only child · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 of lesson 9 «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t10:1 # text = «nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma?» — you're an only child. 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 6 nsubj _ _ 3 yǒu yǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 6 nsubj _ _ 4 xiōngdì xiōngdì X FW Foreign=Yes 6 dep _ _ 5 jiěmèi jiěmèi X FW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | you | a only child | | | | | tree rules | 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 do you say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t10:2 # text = What do you say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} duì ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t10:o1:1 # text = duì 1 duì duì PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} méiyǒu ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t10:o2:1 # text = méiyǒu 1 méiyǒu méiyǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} bú yào ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t10:o3:1 # text = bú yào 1 bú bú X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 yào yào X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} shì ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t10:o4:1 # text = shì 1 shì shì NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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