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title: «tián» or «tiān» for sweet? — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: «tián» or «tiān» for sweet? Test 10 · ★ 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 10 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

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«tián» or «tiān» for sweet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t10:1
# text = «tián» or «tiān» for sweet?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	tián	tián	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tiān	tiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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tiàn, falling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t10:o1:1
# text = tiàn, falling
1	tiàn	tiàn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | tiàn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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tián, rising

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t10:o2:1
# text = tián, rising
1	tián	tián	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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tiān, high and level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t10:o3:1
# text = tiān, high and level
1	tiān	tiān	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tiǎn, dipping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t10:o4:1
# text = tiǎn, dipping
1	tiǎn	tiǎn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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