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title: Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money. Is it fair? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 questio
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

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Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money. Is it fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lín, family · **What happens:** call, not buy, have, be · **To what, where:** friend xiǎoqìguǐ, sweets, little money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t3:1
# text = Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money.
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	xiǎoqìguǐ	xiǎoqìguǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Lín | a friend xiǎoqìguǐ |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent xiǎoqìguǐ=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **buy** | gerund | Lín *not said here* | sweets |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | the friend's family | little money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is it fair?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t3:2
# text = Is it fair?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, it's just a joke word, no harm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, it's just a joke word, no harm
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a joke word and no harm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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No, because xiǎoqìguǐ means "rich"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t3:o2:1
# text = No, because xiǎoqìguǐ means "rich"
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	xiǎoqìguǐ	xiǎoqìguǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | xiǎoqìguǐ |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, he really didn't share, so it's true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes, he really didn't share, so it's true
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **share** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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

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No, that teasing is unfair and hurts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:23-friendly-teasing:t3:o4:1
# text = No, that teasing is unfair and hurts
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that teasing |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | that teasing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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