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title: You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts. What did Lín's mu… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts. What did Lín's mum hear? Test 3 of lesson 18 «The body» 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 3 · The body

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You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts. What did Lín's mum hear?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, foot, mum · **What happens:** ask, mean, hurt, hear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 18 «The body» 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/18-the-body/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t3:1
# text = You ask for jiǎozi when you meant your foot hurts.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | You |  |  |  |  | for jiǎozi | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | your foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 did Lín's mum hear?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t3:2
# text = What did Lín's mum hear?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · do-support | Lín's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

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

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Something about dumplings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t3:o1:1
# text = Something about dumplings
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Something about your teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t3:o2:1
# text = Something about your teeth
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Something about your head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t3:o3:1
# text = Something about your head
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Something about your name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:18-the-body:t3:o4:1
# text = Something about your name
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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