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title: «dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it? — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: «dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it? Test 7 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 7 · Dinner at the friend's house

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«dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** dare, eat, be · **To what, where:** ya, chòu dòufu, it

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t7:1
# text = «dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	dare	dare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ya	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	chòu	chòu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
7	dòufu	dòufu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | ya |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | chòu dòufu |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dòufu=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | it |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Stinky tofu, which really smells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t7:o1:1
# text = Stinky tofu, which really smells
1	Stinky	stinky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tofu	tofu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | Stinky tofu |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rotten eggs kept for a hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t7:o2:1
# text = Rotten eggs kept for a hundred years
1	Rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | participle |  | Rotten eggs *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Burnt rice from the bottom of the pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t7:o3:1
# text = Burnt rice from the bottom of the pot
1	Burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Spicy noodles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t7:o4:1
# text = Spicy noodles
1	Spicy	spicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	noodles	noodle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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