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title: You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful. What… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful. What have you done? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

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You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful. What have you done?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** fix, be, do · **To what, where:** upside fú sign, door

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t2:1
# text = You "fix" the upside-down fú sign on Lín's door to be helpful.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fú	fú	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** *in a quote* |  | You | the upside fú sign |  | Lín's door |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sign=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | helpful *property* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What have you done?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t2:2
# text = What have you done?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, it doesn't matter which way up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, it doesn't matter which way up
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter up** | present · do-support | Nothing | which way |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Made it luckier for the whole year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t2:o2:1
# text = Made it luckier for the whole year
1	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	luckier	lucky	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | it |  |  |  | lucky *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Undone the "luck has arrived" pun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t2:o3:1
# text = Undone the "luck has arrived" pun
1	Undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
8	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | participle |  | the arrived pun |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pun=Patient |
| 2 | **arrive** *in a quote* | present · perfect | luck |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Found a secret message

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t2:o4:1
# text = Found a secret message
1	Found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | a secret message |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic |

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