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title: my mate says u should rip the hóngbāo open straight away and say "oo… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: my mate says u should rip the hóngbāo open straight away and say "ooh how much". good manners? Test 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 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

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my mate says u should rip the hóngbāo open straight away and say "ooh how much". good manners?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, u · **What happens:** say, rip, open, ooh · **To what, where:** hóngbāo, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t1:1
# text = my mate says u should rip the hóngbāo open straight away and say "ooh how much". good manners?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	rip	rip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hóngbāo	hóngbāo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ooh	ooh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rip** | should | u | the hóngbāo |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hóngbāo=Patient |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **ooh** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | much |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, and count it out loud for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, and count it out loud for everyone
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count out** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | for everyone; loud *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, both hands, thank them, open it later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t1:o2:1
# text = No, both hands, thank them, open it later
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | both hands |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | both hands *not said here* | it |  |  |  | late *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, you should give it back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t1:o3:1
# text = No, you should give it back
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give back** | should | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, opening it at once shows you like it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, opening it at once shows you like it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	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 | **show** | present | opening |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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