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title: You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's. Ming's dad smiles. Why? — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's. Ming's dad smiles. Why? Test 11 of lesson 11 «Dinner at the friend's house» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · Dinner at the friend's house

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's. Ming's dad smiles. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, dad · **What happens:** hold, smile · **To what, where:** rice bowl

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This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Dinner at the friend's house» 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/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:1
# text = You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | You | your rice bowl |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |

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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:* Ming's dad smiles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:2
# text = Ming's dad smiles.
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | present | Ming's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:3
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That's good manners at a Chinese table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:o1:1
# text = That's good manners at a Chinese table
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | good manners |  | a Chinese table |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He wants you to put it down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:o2:1
# text = He wants you to put it down
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | He | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He thinks you're cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:o3:1
# text = He thinks you're cold
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He thinks you're messy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t11:o4:1
# text = He thinks you're messy
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | messy *property* | tree rules |

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