--- title: Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. What… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics description: Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. What's right? Test 3 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. --- [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/t3/) [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/) / t3 # Test 3 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. What's right? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** want, be · **To what, where:** party This is test 3 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t3:1 # text = Lín's cousin, aged 5, wants to light firecrackers at the party. 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 firecrackers firecracker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Lín's cousin | | | the party | | to light firecrackers | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to firecracker=Attribute | 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 right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t3:2 # text = What's right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Let him if he wears something red ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t3:o1:1 # text = Let him if he wears something red 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **wear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he | something | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Firecrackers are for grown-ups only ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t3:o2:1 # text = Firecrackers are for grown-ups only 1 Firecrackers firecracker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Firecrackers | | | | | for grown ups | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Let him, it's lucky for little ones ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t3:o3:1 # text = Let him, it's lucky for little ones 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | it | | | | | for little ones; lucky *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Let him if granny watches TV ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t3:o4:1 # text = Let him if granny watches TV 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **watch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | granny | TV | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme | **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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