--- title: Which wish is four neat syllables meaning "may everything go as you… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics description: Which wish is four neat syllables meaning "may everything go as you wish"? Test 9 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/t9/) [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/) / [Red envelopes and New Year wishes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes Which wish is four neat syllables meaning "may everything go as you wish"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wish, four neat syllables, everything, you · **What happens:** be, mean, go, wish · **To what, where:** four neat syllables · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t9:1 # text = Which wish is four neat syllables meaning "may everything go as you wish"? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 syllables syllable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | which wish | four neat syllables | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | four neat syllables *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | may | everything | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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} hóngbāo ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t9:o1:1 # text = hóngbāo 1 hóngbāo hóngbāo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} wànshì rúyì ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t9:o2:1 # text = wànshì rúyì 1 wànshì wànshì VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 rúyì rúyì NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wànshì** | imperative | you *not said here* | rúyì | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} xīnnián hǎo ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t9:o3:1 # text = xīnnián hǎo 1 xīnnián xīnnián X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} bié dāngmiàn chāi ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes:t9:o4:1 # text = bié dāngmiàn chāi 1 bié bié X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 dāngmiàn dāngmiàn X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 chāi chāi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` 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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