--- title: Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl. What does Ming's little sist… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl. What does Ming's little sister call her? Test 7 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/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl. What does Ming's little sister call her? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** big cousin, little sister · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** 15, Ming · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t7:1 # text = Your friend's big cousin is 15, a girl. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Your friend's big cousin | 15 and a girl | | | | | 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 does Ming's little sister call her? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t7:2 # text = What does Ming's little sister call her? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 3 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · do-support | Ming's little sister | Ming | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Result | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} jiějie ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t7:o1:1 # text = jiějie 1 jiějie jiějie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} mèimei ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t7:o2:1 # text = mèimei 1 mèimei mèimei X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} āyí ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t7:o3:1 # text = āyí 1 āyí āyí X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} dìdi ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters:t7:o4:1 # text = dìdi 1 dìdi dìdi PROPN NNP 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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