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title: Which teasing name is "silly melon"? — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which teasing name is "silly melon"? Test 11 · ★★★ 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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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

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Which teasing name is "silly melon"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teasing name · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** silly melon

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 23 «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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/23-friendly-teasing/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t11:1
# text = Which teasing name is "silly melon"?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | teasing name | silly melon |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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chòuměi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t11:o1:1
# text = chòuměi
1	chòuměi	chòuměi	PROPN	NNP	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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shǎguā

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t11:o2:1
# text = shǎguā
1	shǎguā	shǎguā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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lǎnchóng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t11:o3:1
# text = lǎnchóng
1	lǎnchóng	lǎnchóng	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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bèndàn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t11:o4:1
# text = bèndàn
1	bèndàn	bèndàn	PROPN	NNP	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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