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title: It's sunny, 18 degrees, and Lín's granny makes him put on qiūkù. Who… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: It's sunny, 18 degrees, and Lín's granny makes him put on qiūkù. Who wins the argument? Test 3 · ★ 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 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

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It's sunny, 18 degrees, and Lín's granny makes him put on qiūkù. Who wins the argument?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** It, granny, Lín · **What happens:** be, make, put, win · **To what, where:** Lín, qiūkù, argument

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It's sunny, 18 degrees, and Lín's granny makes him put on qiūkù.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t3:1
# text = It's sunny, 18 degrees, and Lín's granny makes him put on qiūkù.
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	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	qiūkù	qiūkù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | 18 degrees *obl*; sunny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | Lín's granny | Lín |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | Lín *not said here* |  |  | qiūkù |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on qiūkù=Destination |

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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:* Who wins the argument?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t3:2
# text = Who wins the argument?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present |  | the argument |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lín's little sister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t3:o1:1
# text = Lín's little sister
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Granny, usually — it's a loving family joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t3:o2:1
# text = Granny, usually — it's a loving family joke
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a loving family joke |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody argues about clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t3:o3:1
# text = Nobody argues about clothes
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  | about clothes | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about clothes=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lín, because science says it's warm enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t3:o4:1
# text = Lín, because science says it's warm enough
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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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** | present | science |  |  |  |  | enough, warm *property* | tree rules |

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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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