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title: Lín says yīntiān is the "dark" half of something famous. What? — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín says yīntiān is the "dark" half of something famous. What? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 10 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

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Lín says yīntiān is the "dark" half of something famous. What?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lín, yīntiān · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** dark half · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín says yīntiān is the "dark" half of something famous.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t10:1
# text = Lín says yīntiān is the "dark" half of something famous.
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yīntiān	yīntiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nmod	_	_
12	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lín |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | yīntiān | the dark half |  |  |  | of something | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t10:2
# text = What?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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day and night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t10:o1:1
# text = day and night
1	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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yīn and yáng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t10:o2:1
# text = yīn and yáng
1	yīn	yīn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	yáng	yáng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the sun and moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t10:o3:1
# text = the sun and moon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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north and south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t10:o4:1
# text = north and south
1	north	north	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	south	south	ADV	RB	_	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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