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title: Identify the literal sense of the teasing term "bèndàn". — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the literal sense of the teasing term "bèndàn". Exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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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# Exam question 1 · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

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Identify the literal sense of the teasing term "bèndàn".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, sense · **To what, where:** literal sense, teasing term

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/23-friendly-teasing/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:e1:1
# text = Identify the literal sense of the teasing term "bèndàn".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bèndàn	bèndàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the literal sense of the teasing term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 2 | **sense** |  |  | the teasing term |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Silly melon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:e1:o1:1
# text = Silly melon
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lazy, sleepy worm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:e1:o2:1
# text = Lazy, sleepy worm
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Stupid egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:e1:o3:1
# text = Stupid egg
1	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Small-gall ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:e1:o4:1
# text = Small-gall ghost
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	gall	gall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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