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title: Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a bo… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a boy who keeps pushing him. What does it mean this time? Test 2 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 optio
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# Test 2 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

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Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a boy who keeps pushing him. What does it mean this time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lín, boy, tǎoyàn · **What happens:** yell, not laugh, keep, push, mean · **To what, where:** tǎoyàn, Lín

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This is test 2 of lesson 16 «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a boy who keeps pushing him.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t2:1
# text = Lín yells "tǎoyàn!" with a straight cold face, not laughing, at a boy who keeps pushing him.
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tǎoyàn	tǎoyàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Lín | tǎoyàn |  |  |  | with a straight cold face | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tǎoyàn=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **laugh** | gerund | Lín *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a boy | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | Lín |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 does it mean this time?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t2:2
# text = What does it mean this time?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Real dislike: "I can't stand you"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t2:o1:1
# text = Real dislike: "I can't stand you"
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dislike	dislike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** *in a quote* | can | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Thank you very much"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t2:o2:1
# text = "Thank you very much"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A friendly "stop it, you!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t2:o3:1
# text = A friendly "stop it, you!"
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | a friendly | it |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"I'm bored, let's play"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t2:o4:1
# text = "I'm bored, let's play"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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