--- title: «she said méi shì not méi shìr, she's saying it wrong» Who is right? — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: «she said méi shì not méi shìr, she's saying it wrong» Who is right? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Thank you, sorry, excuse me](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me «she said méi shì not méi shìr, she's saying it wrong» Who is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** shìr · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t8:1 # text = «she said méi shì not méi shìr, she's saying it wrong» Who is right? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 méi méi X FW _ 5 flat:foreign _ _ 5 shì shì X FW Foreign=Yes 3 ccomp _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 méi méi X FW _ 8 compound _ _ 8 shìr shìr NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | she | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | she | shìr | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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 {#o1} Only méi shìr is real Chinese, the other is wrong ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t8:o1:1 # text = Only méi shìr is real Chinese, the other is wrong 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 méi méi X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 shìr shìr NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | méi shìr | | | | | chinese *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the other | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Only méi shì is real Chinese ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t8:o2:1 # text = Only méi shì is real Chinese 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 méi méi X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 shì shì NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | méi shì | | | | | chinese *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Neither; it is méi xiè ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t8:o3:1 # text = Neither; it is méi xiè 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 méi méi X FW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 xiè xiè NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | it | méi xiè | | | | neither *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Both are right; the r curl is Beijing style ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me:t8:o4:1 # text = Both are right; the r curl is Beijing style 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 r r ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 curl curl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Both | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the r curl | Beijing style | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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