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title: Lín is cross after losing at cards. What's the first step to making… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín is cross after losing at cards. What's the first step to making up? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

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Lín is cross after losing at cards. What's the first step to making up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lín, first step · **What happens:** be, lose, make up · **To what, where:** cards

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín is cross after losing at cards.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t5:1
# text = Lín is cross after losing at cards.
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lín |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | Lín *not said here* |  |  | cards |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at card=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 the first step to making up?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t5:2
# text = What's the first step to making up?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first step |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | gerund | the first step *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Say "nǐ zhēn wúliáo"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t5:o1:1
# text = Say "nǐ zhēn wúliáo"
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
4	zhēn	zhēn	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	wúliáo	wúliáo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | zhēn wúliáo |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wúliáo=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say "qì sǐ wǒ le"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t5:o2:1
# text = Say "qì sǐ wǒ le"
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	qì	qì	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	sǐ	sǐ	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **qì** *in a quote* | past |  | wǒ le |  |  |  | sǐ *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Say "bié shēngqì" and smile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t5:o3:1
# text = Say "bié shēngqì" and smile
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	bié	bié	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	smile	smile	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bié** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | shēngqì |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smile** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Say "hǎo xiànmù"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:16-happy-angry-bored-scared:t5:o4:1
# text = Say "hǎo xiànmù"
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	xiànmù	xiànmù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | hǎo xiànmù |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent xiànmù=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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