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title: At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat un… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat underneath. What might Lín's granny say? Test 6 · ★★ 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; 
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

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At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat underneath. What might Lín's granny say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, granny · **What happens:** start, flip, get, say · **To what, where:** Year dinner, fish, meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat underneath.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t6:1
# text = At the New Year dinner you start to flip the fish to get the meat underneath.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	flip	flip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | you |  |  | the Year dinner |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flip** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus |

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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's granny say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t6:2
# text = What might Lín's granny say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | might | Lín's granny |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Throw the bones on the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t6:o1:1
# text = Throw the bones on the floor
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bones |  | the floor |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme on floor=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Flip it twice for double luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t6:o2:1
# text = Flip it twice for double luck
1	Flip	flip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flip** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | for double luck; twice *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eat the head first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t6:o3:1
# text = Eat the head first
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | the head |  |  |  | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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

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Some families don't flip it, like a boat capsizing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t6:o4:1
# text = Some families don't flip it, like a boat capsizing
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	flip	flip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	capsizing	capsize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **flip** | present · do-support | some families | it |  |  |  | like a boat | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **capsize** | gerund | a boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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