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title: Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué. What did he really say? — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué. What did he really say? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

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Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué. What did he really say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lín · **What happens:** shout, rise, say · **To what, where:** xué le · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t2:1
# text = Lín shouts "xià xué le!" with a rising xué.
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	xià	xià	X	FW	_	6	dep	_	_
5	xué	xué	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	xué	xué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Lín | xué le |  |  |  | with a rising xué | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=Topic |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 really say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t2:2
# text = What did he really 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	really	really	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It's raining

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t2:o1:1
# text = It's raining
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rain** | present · progressive | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It's windy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t2:o2:1
# text = It's windy
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | windy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's snowing, nothing changes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t2:o3:1
# text = It's snowing, nothing changes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	snowing	snow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snow** | present · progressive | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **change** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Something about school ending, not snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t2:o4:1
# text = Something about school ending, not snow
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	snow	snow	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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