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title: Ascertain the appropriate response to a companion who declares "wǒ h… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the appropriate response to a companion who declares "wǒ hǎo pà". Exam question 4 of lesson 16 «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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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# Exam question 4 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

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Ascertain the appropriate response to a companion who declares "wǒ hǎo pà".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, companion · **What happens:** ascertain, declare · **To what, where:** appropriate response, wǒ hǎo pà

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 16 «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the appropriate response to a companion who declares "wǒ hǎo pà".
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declares	declare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
12	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	pà	pà	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the appropriate response |  |  |  | to a companion | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | a companion | wǒ hǎo pà |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pà=Attribute |

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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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tǎoyàn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:e4:o1:1
# text = tǎoyàn
1	tǎoyàn	tǎoyàn	PROPN	NNP	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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bié pà

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:e4:o2:1
# text = bié pà
1	bié	bié	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	pà	pà	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bié shēngqì

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:e4:o3:1
# text = bié shēngqì
1	bié	bié	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bié** | imperative | you *not said here* | shēngqì |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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hǎo xiànmù

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:e4:o4:1
# text = hǎo xiànmù
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	xiànmù	xiànmù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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