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description: ★★★ Ollie from Leeds goes «mate, 33 is just sānsān innit». What is right? Test 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 
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

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★★★ Ollie from Leeds goes «mate, 33 is just sānsān innit». What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, 33 · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** sānsān innit

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Ollie from Leeds goes «mate, 33 is just sānsān innit».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t1:1
# text = ★★★ Ollie from Leeds goes «mate, 33 is just sānsān innit».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sānsān	sānsān	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | ★ from Leeds |  |  |  |  | mate and sānsān innit *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 33 | sānsān innit |  |  |  |  | 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 is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t1:2
# text = What is right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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shísānsān: ten, three, three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t1:o1:1
# text = shísānsān: ten, three, three
1	shísānsān	shísānsān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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sānshí: thirty, that's near enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t1:o2:1
# text = sānshí: thirty, that's near enough
1	sānshí	sānshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | enough, near *property* | tree rules |

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

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sānshísān: three-tens, then three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t1:o3:1
# text = sānshísān: three-tens, then three
1	sānshísān	sānshísān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sānsān: two threes side by side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t1:o4:1
# text = sānsān: two threes side by side
1	sānsān	sānsān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	threes	three	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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