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title: «wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes. Wha… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: «wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes. What might friends call him? Test 9 · ★★★ 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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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!

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«wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes. What might friends call him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wǒ, friends · **What happens:** say, call · **To what, where:** wǒ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t9:1
# text = «wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le wǒ yíng le!!!» says Ming for ten minutes.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
3	yíng	yíng	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
6	yíng	yíng	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
7	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
8	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
9	yíng	yíng	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
10	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | wǒ |  |  |  | minute |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 might friends call him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t9:2
# text = What might friends call him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | might | friends | wǒ |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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píngjú

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t9:o1:1
# text = píngjú
1	píngjú	píngjú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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déyì, smug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t9:o2:1
# text = déyì, smug
1	déyì	déyì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	smug	smug	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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lǎoyīng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t9:o3:1
# text = lǎoyīng
1	lǎoyīng	lǎoyīng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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mùtourén

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek:t9:o4:1
# text = mùtourén
1	mùtourén	mùtourén	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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