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# Test 7 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

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«bié kèqi she said, so I ate the whole plate of dumplings lol» What went wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bié, I · **What happens:** say, eat, go · **To what, where:** whole plate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t7:1
# text = «bié kèqi she said, so I ate the whole plate of dumplings lol» What went wrong?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bié	bié	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
3	kèqi	kèqi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | bié |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | I | the whole plate of dumplings |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It's an invitation, but take one helping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t7:o1:1
# text = It's an invitation, but take one helping
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	helping	helping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a invitation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | one helping |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helping=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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bié kèqi means don't eat any

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t7:o2:1
# text = bié kèqi means don't eat any
1	bié	bié	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
2	kèqi	kèqi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | bié |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | infinitive · do-support |  | any |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You should have eaten two plates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t7:o3:1
# text = You should have eaten two plates
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | should · perfect | You | two plates |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, that's exactly what bié kèqi means

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing, that's exactly what bié kèqi means
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
7	bié	bié	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
8	kèqi	kèqi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | bié |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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