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title: Lín mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping). What did he nearly say? — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping). What did he nearly say? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · Animals and "what animal are you?"

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Lín mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping). What did he nearly say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lín · **What happens:** mix up, fall, dip, say · **To what, where:** tùzi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t8:1
# text = Lín mixes up tùzi (falling) and tǔ (dipping).
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	tùzi	tùzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tǔ	tǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix up** | present | Lín | tùzi |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tùzi=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | Lín *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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 did he nearly say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t8:2
# text = What did he nearly say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	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* | past · do-support | Lín |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pig instead of rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t8:o1:1
# text = Pig instead of rabbit
1	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Soil instead of rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t8:o2:1
# text = Soil instead of rabbit
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Monkey instead of rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t8:o3:1
# text = Monkey instead of rabbit
1	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	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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Moon instead of rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal:t8:o4:1
# text = Moon instead of rabbit
1	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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