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title: «ming is my tóngxué so he's def my best friend» Is that right? — School words · tree and pragmatics
description: «ming is my tóngxué so he's def my best friend» Is that right? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · School words

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«ming is my tóngxué so he's def my best friend» Is that right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ming, he, tóngxué · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tóngxué, best friend

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t2:1
# text = «ming is my tóngxué so he's def my best friend» Is that right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ming	ming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tóngxué	tóngxué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	def	definitely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ming | my tóngxué |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | he | my best friend |  |  |  | definitely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | my tóngxué |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, tóngxué means brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t2:o1:1
# text = Yes, tóngxué means brother
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tóngxué	tóngxué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tóngxué | brother |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, tóngxué means best friend for life, 100 per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t2:o2:1
# text = Yes, tóngxué means best friend for life, 100 per cent
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tóngxué	tóngxué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tóngxué | best friend and 100 per cent |  |  |  | for life | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme for life=Attribute |

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

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Not necessarily: tóngxué is classmate, not friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t2:o3:1
# text = Not necessarily: tóngxué is classmate, not friend
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tóngxué	tóngxué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | tóngxué classmate and friend |  |  |  | necessarily *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, tóngxué means teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:15-school-words:t2:o4:1
# text = No, tóngxué means teacher
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tóngxué	tóngxué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tóngxué | teacher |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Topic |

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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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