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title: «shut up, it's ní hǎo, not nǐ hǎo, you're saying it wrong» Who is ri… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at… · tree and pragmatics
description: «shut up, it's ní hǎo, not nǐ hǎo, you're saying it wrong» Who is right? Test 9 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 9 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

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«shut up, it's ní hǎo, not nǐ hǎo, you're saying it wrong» Who is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** shut up, say, be · **To what, where:** ní, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t9:1
# text = «shut up, it's ní hǎo, not nǐ hǎo, you're saying it wrong» Who is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ní	ní	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
8	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
12	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | ní |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only you; nǐ never ever changes, whatever comes next

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t9:o1:1
# text = Only you; nǐ never ever changes, whatever comes next
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	appos	_	_
10	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | you |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody; the word is nīn hǎo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobody; the word is nīn hǎo
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	nīn	nīn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	appos	_	_
7	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only the grumpy kid; nǐ does not exist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t9:o3:1
# text = Only the grumpy kid; nǐ does not exist
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	nǐ	nǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | the grumpy kid's nǐ |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Both: it is written nǐ, but said rising before hǎo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate:t9:o4:1
# text = Both: it is written nǐ, but said rising before hǎo
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Both |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | Both *not said here* |  |  | hǎo |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before hǎo=Location |

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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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