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description: Select the response consistent with the established distinction between zuòbì and shuǎlài. Exam question 3 of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Exam question 3 · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!

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Select the response consistent with the established distinction between zuòbì and shuǎlài.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, establish · **To what, where:** response

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established distinction between zuòbì and shuǎlài.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	zuòbì	zuòbì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both denote victory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:e3:o1:1
# text = Both denote victory
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	denote	denote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **denote** | present | Both | victory |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot victory=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The former denotes a draw, whereas the latter denotes a rematch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:e3:o2:1
# text = The former denotes a draw, whereas the latter denotes a rematch
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	denotes	denote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	latter	latter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	denotes	denote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rematch	rematch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **denote** | present | the former | a draw |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot draw=Topic |
| 2 | **denote** | present | the latter | a rematch |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rematch=Topic |

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

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The former denotes cheating, the latter refusing to accept defeat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:e3:o3:1
# text = The former denotes cheating, the latter refusing to accept defeat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	denotes	denote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
8	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **denote** | present | the former | cheating |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cheating=Topic |
| 2 | **refuse** | gerund | the former *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **accept** | to-infinitive | the former *not said here* | defeat |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both denote concealment in hide and seek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:e3:o4:1
# text = Both denote concealment in hide and seek
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	denote	denote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	concealment	concealment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **denote** | present | Both | concealment |  |  |  | in hide | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot concealment=Theme in hide=Attribute |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive | Both *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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