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title: What would happen if you said a big «hāi!» to Ming's grandad? — Hello and goodbye: the first words at… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you said a big «hāi!» to Ming's grandad? Test 3 of lesson 1 «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» 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.
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# Test 3 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

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What would happen if you said a big «hāi!» to Ming's grandad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, say · **To what, where:** big hāi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 1 «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» 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/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t3:1
# text = What would happen if you said a big «hāi!» to Ming's grandad?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hāi	hāi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a big hāi |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hāi=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, hāi is the most polite hello

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing, hāi is the most polite hello
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hāi	hāi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing hāi | the polite hello |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It means «go away» in Chinese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t3:o2:1
# text = It means «go away» in Chinese
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | Chinese |  | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chinese=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would sound a bit too cheeky; nín hǎo makes him beam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t3:o3:1
# text = It would sound a bit too cheeky; nín hǎo makes him beam
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nín	nín	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
10	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	beam	beam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would | It |  |  |  |  | cheeky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | present | nín | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beam** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He would not understand any English at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t3:o4:1
# text = He would not understand any English at all
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | would | He | any English |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer english=Stimulus |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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