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title: In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guā… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guānxi!». What should he have said? Test 10 · ★ 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 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

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In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guānxi!». What should he have said?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, bus · **What happens:** shove, shout, say · **To what, where:** cartoon, méi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guānxi!».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t10:1
# text = In a cartoon a boy shoves past everyone on the bus shouting «méi guānxi!».
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shoves	shove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	past	past	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	méi	méi	X	FW	_	12	obj	_	_
15	guānxi	guānxi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** | present | a boy |  |  | a cartoon |  | past everyone | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past everyone=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the bus *not said here* | méi |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent méi=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should he have said?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t10:2
# text = What should he have said?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | should · perfect | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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bú kèqi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t10: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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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jiè guò yíxià

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t10:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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wǎn'ān, see you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t10:o3:1
# text = wǎn'ān, see you
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | wǎn'ān *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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xièxie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t10:o4:1
# text = xièxie
1	xièxie	xièxie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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