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title: In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass. What… — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass. What would be more polite? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

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In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass. What would be more polite?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** clink, be · **To what, where:** juice, cartoon

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t9:1
# text = In a cartoon a kid clinks his juice high above Grandad's glass.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	clinks	clink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
10	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clink** | present | a kid | kid's juice |  | a cartoon |  | above Grandad's glass; high *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location juice=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:* What would be more polite?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t9:2
# text = What would be more polite?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Hold it even higher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t9:o1:1
# text = Hold it even higher
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | high *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Not drink at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t9:o2:1
# text = Not drink at all
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pour it on the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t9:o3:1
# text = Pour it on the table
1	Pour	pour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the table |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Hold it a little lower than Grandad's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:12-tasty-spicy-im-full:t9:o4:1
# text = Hold it a little lower than Grandad's
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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