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title: Dinner at the friend's house — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Chinese street
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 11 «Dinner at the friend's house» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dinner at the friend's house

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The 15 questions of lesson 11 «Dinner at the friend's house» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school with their options, 82 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t1/) — «ming's mum shouted chī fàn le but i was mid game so i waited» What should you have done? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t2/) — You stick your chopsticks straight up in the rice to free your hands. Why does Granny frown? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t3/) — «zhōu is porridge so where's the sugar» What's right? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t4/) — At Ming's birthday you cut his noodles to make them easier. What might Granny say? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t5/) — «ask for hóngshāoròu, it's the best» at a friend's who doesn't eat pork. What's right? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t6/) — You drum on your bowl with your kuàizi waiting for food. What do the grown-ups think? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t7/) — «dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t8/) — In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside. What was it really? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t9/) — What would happen if you shouted «lái le!» when Ming's mum calls dinner? — right ✓
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t10/) — «tomato and egg again, every family makes it the same» What is true? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/t11/) — You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's. Ming's dad smiles. Why? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/e1/) — Identify the customary meaning of the announcement chī fàn le. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/e2/) — Ascertain the principal reason for which chopsticks should not be placed upright in a bowl of rice. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning zhōu. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between mántou and bāozi? — wrong ✗ · exam

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