--- title: Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. What's the on… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics description: Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. What's the one wish everyone needs? Test 11 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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 wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/) / t11 # Test 11 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. What's the one wish everyone needs? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, one wish, everyone · **What happens:** ask, say, be, need · **To what, where:** family, one wish · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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/25-spring-festival/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t11:1 # text = Your mum asks what to say to Lín's family at New Year. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Your mum | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Your mum *not said here* | | Lín's family at New Year | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to family=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's the one wish everyone needs? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t11:2 # text = What's the one wish everyone needs? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the one wish | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | everyone | the one wish *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wish=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} zhōumò kuàilè ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t11:o1:1 # text = zhōumò kuàilè 1 zhōumò zhōumò PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 kuàilè kuàilè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} xīnnián kuàilè ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t11:o2:1 # text = xīnnián kuàilè 1 xīnnián xīnnián PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 kuàilè kuàilè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} shēngrì kuàilè ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t11:o3:1 # text = shēngrì kuàilè 1 shēngrì shēngrì ADV FW _ 0 root _ _ 2 kuàilè kuàilè X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} wǎn'ān ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t11:o4:1 # text = wǎn'ān 1 wǎn'ān wǎn'ān NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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