--- title: Ming has no brothers or sisters. What is true? — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: Ming has no brothers or sisters. What is true? Test 4 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/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters Ming has no brothers or sisters. What is true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ming · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** brothers This is test 4 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ming has no brothers or sisters. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t4:1 # text = Ming has no brothers or sisters. 1 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Ming | no brothers or sisters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | 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 is true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t4:2 # text = What is true? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} He is a dúshēngzǐ, and that's not sad or strange ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t4:o1:1 # text = He is a dúshēngzǐ, and that's not sad or strange 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dúshēngzǐ dúshēngzǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | He | a dúshēngzǐ | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | that | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | that *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} He must be very lonely all the time ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t4:o2:1 # text = He must be very lonely all the time 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | must | He | | | | time | lonely *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Only children are not allowed in China ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t4:o3:1 # text = Only children are not allowed in China 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive | | children | | China | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ### Option 4 {#o4} Something must be wrong with his family, surely ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t4:o4:1 # text = Something must be wrong with his family, surely 1 Something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 surely surely ADV RB _ 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | must | Something | | | | | with his family; wrong *property* | tree rules | **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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