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title: «the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend. What's the tiny slip? — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: «the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend. What's the tiny slip? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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 1 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

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«the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend. What's the tiny slip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hǎo chī, tiny slip · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t1:1
# text = «the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	chī	chī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the soup's hǎo chī | your friend |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=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's the tiny slip?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t1:2
# text = What's the tiny slip?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the tiny slip |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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hǎo chī means disgusting, so rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t1:o1:1
# text = hǎo chī means disgusting, so rude
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	chī	chī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | hǎo chī |  |  |  |  | disgusting *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, everyone says it about soup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t1:o2:1
# text = Nothing, everyone says it about soup
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nothing | it |  |  |  | about soup | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Soups and drinks often get hǎo hē

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t1:o3:1
# text = Soups and drinks often get hǎo hē
1	Soups	soup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	hē	hē	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Soups and drinks | hǎo hē |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hē=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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hǎo chī is only for sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t1:o4:1
# text = hǎo chī is only for sweets
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	chī	chī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | hǎo chī |  |  |  |  | for sweets | tree rules |

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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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