--- title: «bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad. What did Ming hear? — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: «bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad. What did Ming hear? Test 11 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 right. --- [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/t11/) [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/) / t11 # Test 11 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters «bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad. What did Ming hear? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Ming · **What happens:** shout, mean, hear · **To what, where:** dad This is test 11 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t11:1 # text = «bā!» you shout, high and level, meaning dad. 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 bā bā NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 level level ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 13 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | you | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | you *not said here* | dad | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Topic | 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 did Ming hear? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t11:2 # text = What did Ming hear? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hear hear 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 | **hear** | past · do-support | Ming | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Eight ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t11:o1:1 # text = Eight 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Dad ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t11:o2:1 # text = Dad 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Hello ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t11:o3:1 # text = Hello 1 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Mum ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t11:o4:1 # text = Mum 1 Mum mum 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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