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title: «ming said nǐ zǎo to me and i was already late lol» What could nǐ zǎ… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ming said nǐ zǎo to me and i was already late lol» What could nǐ zǎo also mean? Test 4 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 ri
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# Test 4 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

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«ming said nǐ zǎo to me and i was already late lol» What could nǐ zǎo also mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ming, i · **What happens:** say, be, nǐ, mean · **To what, where:** nǐ zǎo, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t4:1
# text = «ming said nǐ zǎo to me and i was already late lol» What could nǐ zǎo also mean?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ming	ming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	zǎo	zǎo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	nǐ	nǐ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
18	zǎo	zǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | ming | nǐ zǎo | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | i |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **nǐ** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You're early (or just morning!)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t4:o1:1
# text = You're early (or just morning!)
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You're in big trouble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t4:o2:1
# text = You're in big trouble
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	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** | present | You |  |  | big trouble |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You're very late again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t4:o3:1
# text = You're very late again
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  | again | late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You're tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t4:o4:1
# text = You're tired
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

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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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