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title: «can you stay for tea?» «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll… — At the friend's home: what to say to t… · tree and pragmatics
description: «can you stay for tea?» «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll ask my mum» at Ming's? Test 11 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 11 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

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«can you stay for tea?» «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll ask my mum» at Ming's?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** stay, say, ask · **To what, where:** mum, Ming · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «can you stay for tea?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t11:1
# text = «can you stay for tea?»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | for tea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll ask my mum» at Ming's?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t11:2
# text = «dunno, gotta check» — how do you say «I'll ask my mum» at Ming's?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	dunno	dunno	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	gotta	gotta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | future | I |  | my mum | Ming |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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wǒ gāi zǒu le, xièxie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t11:o1:1
# text = wǒ gāi zǒu le, xièxie
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	xièxie	xièxie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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màn zǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t11:o2:1
# text = màn zǒu
1	màn	màn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	zǒu	zǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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wǒ wèn yíxià wǒ māma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t11:o3:1
# text = wǒ wèn yíxià wǒ māma
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	wèn	wèn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	yíxià	yíxià	X	GW	_	0	root	_	_
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	GW	_	3	flat	_	_
5	māma	māma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dǎrǎo le, āyí, zàijiàn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t11:o4:1
# text = dǎrǎo le, āyí, zàijiàn
1	dǎrǎo	dǎrǎo	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	āyí	āyí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	zàijiàn	zàijiàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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