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title: «oi granny nǐ pàng le too lol» What's wrong here? — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics
description: «oi granny nǐ pàng le too lol» What's wrong here? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

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«oi granny nǐ pàng le too lol» What's wrong here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** oi granny · **What happens:** pàng, be · **To what, where:** le

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:t2:1
# text = «oi granny nǐ pàng le too lol» What's wrong here?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	oi	oi	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pàng	pàng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pàng** *in a quote* | gerund | oi granny *not said here* | le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | oi granny |  |  | here |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A child never says it back to an elder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:t2:o1:1
# text = A child never says it back to an elder
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | a child | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, it's a compliment, both ways round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:t2:o2:1
# text = Nothing, it's a compliment, both ways round
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You should say it twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:t2:o3:1
# text = You should say it twice
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | You | it |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's only wrong in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents:t2:o4:1
# text = It's only wrong in the morning
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	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  | morning | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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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