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title: Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit. What story i… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit. What story is he thinking of? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» 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 
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

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Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit. What story is he thinking of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lín, story · **What happens:** look, say, see, think · **To what, where:** rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» 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/27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t10:1
# text = Lín looks at the full moon and says he sees the rabbit.
1	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Lín |  |  |  |  | at the full moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lín *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | present | Lín | the rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |

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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 story is he thinking of?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t10:2
# text = What story is he thinking of?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · progressive | story |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The drowned poet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t10:o1:1
# text = The drowned poet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Monkey King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t10:o2:1
# text = The Monkey King
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The monster nián

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t10:o3:1
# text = The monster nián
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nián	nián	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Cháng'é and the jade rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t10:o4:1
# text = Cháng'é and the jade rabbit
1	Cháng'é	Cháng'é	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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