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title: ★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October. When should she? Test 11 · ★★★ 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 optio
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

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★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October. When should she?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** hear, wish · **To what, where:** Ming happy birthday

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This is test 11 · ★★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t11:1
# text = ★★★ Lucy hears «èr yuè shí hào» and wishes Ming happy birthday on 2 October.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	èr	èr	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	yuè	yuè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shí	shí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hào	hào	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | ★ ★ Lucy |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wish** | present | ★ ★ Lucy *not said here* | Ming happy birthday |  |  | october |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot birthday=Theme |

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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:* When should she?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t11:2
# text = When should she?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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12 February, nearly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t11:o1:1
# text = 12 February, nearly
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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20 October, close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t11:o2:1
# text = 20 October, close
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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2 October, she's right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t11:o3:1
# text = 2 October, she's right
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 2 October |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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10 February

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t11:o4:1
# text = 10 February
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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