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title: The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence. Wh… — At the friend's home: what to say to t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence. What's a lovely reply? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 10 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

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The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence. What's a lovely reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** parents, you · **What happens:** say, answer, be · **To what, where:** xià cì, silence, lovely reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t10:1
# text = The parents say «xià cì zài lái wánr!» and you answer in silence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	xià	xià	X	FW	_	6	flat:foreign	_	_
6	cì	cì	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
7	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat	_	_
8	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat	_	_
9	wánr	wánr	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | the parents | xià cì |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cì=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  | silence |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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's a lovely reply?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t10:2
# text = What's a lovely reply?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a lovely reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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bié kèqi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t10:o1:1
# text = bié kèqi
1	bié	bié	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	kèqi	kèqi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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

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hǎo, xièxie shūshu āyí!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t10:o2:1
# text = hǎo, xièxie shūshu āyí!
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	xièxie	xièxie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
4	shūshu	shūshu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	āyí	āyí	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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qǐng jìn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t10:o3:1
# text = qǐng jìn
1	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	jìn	jìn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **qǐng** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wǒ gāi zǒu le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t10:o4:1
# text = wǒ gāi zǒu le
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	gāi	gāi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	zǒu	zǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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