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title: In a game, a polite knight says «qǐng» before every request, like En… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 6 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

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In a game, a polite knight says «qǐng» before every request, like English please. What would a real kid say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** polite knight, real kid · **What happens:** say, qǐng · **To what, where:** game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game, a polite knight says «qǐng» before every request, like English please.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t6:1
# text = In a game, a polite knight says «qǐng» before every request, like English please.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a polite knight |  |  | a game |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **qǐng** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | before every request |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would a real kid say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t6:2
# text = What would a real kid say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a real kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Shout qǐng even louder every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t6:o1:1
# text = Shout qǐng even louder every time
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **qǐng** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time | loud *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Say duìbuqǐ before each and every word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t6:o2:1
# text = Say duìbuqǐ before each and every word
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | duìbuqǐ |  |  | before each |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Topic |

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

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Use ... hǎo ma? or ... ba instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t6:o3:1
# text = Use ... hǎo ma? or ... ba instead
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | hǎo ma |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Say nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t6:o4:1
# text = Say nothing at all
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | nothing |  | all |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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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