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title: You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo". What might Lín hear? — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo". What might Lín hear? Test 3 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

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You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo". What might Lín hear?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, voice, Lín · **What happens:** mean, rise, hear · **To what, where:** cat, máo

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t3:1
# text = You meant "cat" but your voice rose: "máo".
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	máo	máo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | You | cat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
| 2 | **rise** | past | your voice | máo |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location máo=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 might Lín hear?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t3:2
# text = What might Lín hear?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A tiger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t3:o1:1
# text = A tiger
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A cat, nothing changes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t3:o2:1
# text = A cat, nothing changes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	conj	_	_
5	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | a cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A panda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t3:o3:1
# text = A panda
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fur, or the 10p coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t3:o4:1
# text = Fur, or the 10p coin
1	Fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coin	coin	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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