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title: Lín says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day. What did he s… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day. What did he say instead? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

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Lín says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day. What did he say instead?

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

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t5:1
# text = Lín says "hǎo lèng" with a falling tone on a cold day.
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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	lèng	lèng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | hǎo lèng |  |  |  | with a falling tone on a cold day | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent lèng=Theme with tone=Manner |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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 say instead?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t5:2
# text = What did he say instead?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  |  |  |  | instead *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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It's so cold, the right way to say it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t5:o1:1
# text = It's so cold, the right way to say it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | way |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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

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Something about being dazed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t5:o2:1
# text = Something about being dazed
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dazed	daze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **daze** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's windy and wet outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t5:o3:1
# text = It's windy and wet outside
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	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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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 |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It's so hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t5:o4:1
# text = It's so hot
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hot	hot	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 |  |  |  |  | hot *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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