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title: A kid pushes in at the tuck shop. What can you fairly say? — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid pushes in at the tuck shop. What can you fairly say? Test 4 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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 4 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

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A kid pushes in at the tuck shop. What can you fairly say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid, you · **What happens:** push in, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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/13-in-the-playground/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kid pushes in at the tuck shop.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t4:1
# text = A kid pushes in at the tuck shop.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push in** | present | a kid |  |  |  |  | at the tuck shop | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at shop=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 can you fairly say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t4:2
# text = What can you fairly say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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bié chā duì!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t4:o1:1
# text = bié chā duì!
1	bié	bié	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	chā	chā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	duì	duì	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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kuài lái!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t4:o2:1
# text = kuài lái!
1	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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jiāyóu!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t4:o3:1
# text = jiāyóu!
1	jiāyóu	jiāyóu	NOUN	FW	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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gāi wǒ le!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:13-in-the-playground:t4:o4:1
# text = gāi wǒ le!
1	gāi	gāi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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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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