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title: Identify the customary mode of receiving a red envelope from an elder. — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the customary mode of receiving a red envelope from an elder. Exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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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# Exam question 1 · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

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Identify the customary mode of receiving a red envelope from an elder.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, customary mode · **What happens:** identify, receive · **To what, where:** customary mode, red envelope, elder

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e1:1
# text = Identify the customary mode of receiving a red envelope from an elder.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the customary mode |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mode=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | the customary mode *not said here* | a red envelope |  | a elder |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent envelope=Theme from elder=Source |

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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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With one hand, in silence and without looking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e1:o1:1
# text = With one hand, in silence and without looking
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By opening it at once and counting the contents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e1:o2:1
# text = By opening it at once and counting the contents
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **count** | gerund |  | the contents |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By declining it thrice and departing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e1:o3:1
# text = By declining it thrice and departing
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	departing	depart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  | thrice *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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With both hands, accompanied by thanks and a wish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:e1:o4:1
# text = With both hands, accompanied by thanks and a wish
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle |  | both hands *not said here* |  |  |  | by thanks and a wish | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by thanks=Destination |

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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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