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title: It is Friday home time. Which is better than míngtiān jiàn? — Hello and goodbye: the first words at… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is Friday home time. Which is better than míngtiān jiàn? Test 5 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 5 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

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It is Friday home time. Which is better than míngtiān jiàn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** It · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Friday home time

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is Friday home time.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t5:1
# text = It is Friday home time.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | Friday home time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is better than míngtiān jiàn?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t5:2
# text = Which is better than míngtiān jiàn?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	míngtiān	míngtiān	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than míngtiān jiàn; good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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wǎn'ān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t5:o1:1
# text = wǎn'ān
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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zǎoshang hǎo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t5:o2:1
# text = zǎoshang hǎo
1	zǎoshang	zǎoshang	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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xīngqīyī jiàn (see you Monday)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t5:o3:1
# text = xīngqīyī jiàn (see you Monday)
1	xīngqīyī	xīngqīyī	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  | you |  |  | monday |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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huítóu jiàn lǎoshī (see you later)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t5:o4:1
# text = huítóu jiàn lǎoshī (see you later)
1	huítóu	huítóu	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	jiàn	jiàn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	lǎoshī	lǎoshī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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