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title: In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside. What… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside. What was it really? Test 8 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 8 · Dinner at the friend's house

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In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside. What was it really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** bite, find, be · **To what, where:** someone, pork

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
5	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mántou	mántou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present |  |  |  | someone |  | into a mántou *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into mántou=Result |
| 2 | **find** | present |  | pork |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Topic |

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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:* What was it really?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t8:2
# text = What was it really?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | pork |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A zhōu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t8:o1:1
# text = A zhōu
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	zhōu	zhōu	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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A jiǎozi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t8:o2:1
# text = A jiǎozi
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A bāozi; mántou has no filling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t8:o3:1
# text = A bāozi; mántou has no filling
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bāozi	bāozi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	mántou	mántou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	filling	filling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a bāozi | no filling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filling=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A kuàizi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:11-dinner-at-the-friends-house:t8:o4:1
# text = A kuàizi
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kuàizi	kuàizi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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