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title: Ascertain the customary reply to an expression of gratitude in Manda… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the customary reply to an expression of gratitude in Mandarin. Exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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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# Exam question 3 · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

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Ascertain the customary reply to an expression of gratitude in Mandarin.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** customary reply

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the customary reply to an expression of gratitude in Mandarin.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the customary reply |  |  |  | to a expression of gratitude in Mandarin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Topic |

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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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bú kèqi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e3:o1:1
# text = bú kèqi
1	bú	bú	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 {#o2}

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máfan nǐ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e3:o2:1
# text = máfan nǐ
1	máfan	máfan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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jiè guò yíxià

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e3:o3:1
# text = jiè guò yíxià
1	jiè	jiè	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	guò	guò	X	GW	_	1	obj	_	_
3	yíxià	yíxià	X	ADD	_	2	goeswith	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jiè** | imperative | you *not said here* | guò |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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duìbuqǐ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:e3:o4:1
# text = duìbuqǐ
1	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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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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