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title: «oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast… — School words · tree and pragmatics
description: «oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk. What's an honest answer? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 15 «School words» 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 · ★ · School words

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«oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk. What's an honest answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new kid, honest answer · **What happens:** tīng, lose, be · **To what, where:** dǒng ma, You, fast talk

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 15 «School words» 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/15-school-words/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t10:1
# text = «oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	oi	oi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tīng	tīng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	dǒng	dǒng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tīng** *in a quote* | gerund | new kid *not said here* | dǒng ma |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | present · passive |  | You |  | the fast talk |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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's an honest answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t10:2
# text = What's an honest answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a honest answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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yìbǎi fēn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t10:o1:1
# text = yìbǎi fēn
1	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	fēn	fēn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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tīng bù dǒng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t10:o2:1
# text = tīng bù dǒng
1	tīng	tīng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	bù	bù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dǒng	dǒng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tīng** | gerund |  | bù dǒng |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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xià kè

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t10:o3:1
# text = xià kè
1	xià	xià	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	kè	kè	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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lǎoshī hǎo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t10:o4:1
# text = lǎoshī hǎo
1	lǎoshī	lǎoshī	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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