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title: Determine the Mandarin numeral equal to the sum of shíwǔ and èrshí. — Olympiad: tone detectives and number p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the Mandarin numeral equal to the sum of shíwǔ and èrshí. Exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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 wro
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# Exam question 1 · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

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Determine the Mandarin numeral equal to the sum of shíwǔ and èrshí.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, sum · **To what, where:** Mandarin numeral, shíwǔ

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e1:1
# text = Determine the Mandarin numeral equal to the sum of shíwǔ and èrshí.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	numeral	numeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	shíwǔ	shíwǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Mandarin numeral |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent numeral=Topic |
| 2 | **sum** |  |  | shíwǔ and èrshí |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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sānshí

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e1:o1:1
# text = sānshí
1	sānshí	sānshí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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wǔshísān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e1:o2:1
# text = wǔshísān
1	wǔshísān	wǔshísān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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sānshíwǔ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e1:o3:1
# text = sānshíwǔ
1	sānshíwǔ	sānshíwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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èrshíwǔ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:e1:o4:1
# text = èrshíwǔ
1	èrshíwǔ	èrshíwǔ	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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