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title: Which pair both start with lǎo but have nothing to do with being old? — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: Which pair both start with lǎo but have nothing to do with being old? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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 11 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

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Which pair both start with lǎo but have nothing to do with being old?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** start, have, do, be · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t11:1
# text = Which pair both start with lǎo but have nothing to do with being old?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lǎo	lǎo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | which pair |  |  |  |  | with lǎo | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lǎo=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | which pair *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | which pair *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | old *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}

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lóng and niú

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t11:o1:1
# text = lóng and niú
1	lóng	lóng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	niú	niú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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xióngmāo and hóuzi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t11:o2:1
# text = xióngmāo and hóuzi
1	xióngmāo	xióngmāo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hóuzi	hóuzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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lǎohǔ and lǎoshǔ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t11:o3:1
# text = lǎohǔ and lǎoshǔ
1	lǎohǔ	lǎohǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lǎoshǔ	lǎoshǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tùzi and zhū

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t11:o4:1
# text = tùzi and zhū
1	tùzi	tùzi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	zhū	zhū	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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