--- title: You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. What di… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. What did you really say? Test 11 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language 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/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / t11 # Test 11 · The big language quiz You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. What did you really say? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** mǎ, Mandarin teacher, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language 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/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t11:1 # text = You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 mǎ mǎ NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Mandarin Mandarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You | mǎ | your Mandarin teacher | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mǎ=Topic to teacher=Recipient | | 2 | **mean** | past | you | mother | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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 you really say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t11:2 # text = What did you really say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Scold ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t11:o1:1 # text = Scold 1 Scold scold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Mother ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t11:o2:1 # text = Mother 1 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Hemp ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t11:o3:1 # text = Hemp 1 Hemp hemp NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t11:o4:1 # text = Horse 1 Horse horse 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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