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title: ★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit». Wh… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit». Why not? Test 6 · ★★★ 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 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

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★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit». Why not?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** reckon, innit · **To what, where:** hǎo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t6:1
# text = ★★★ Zoe reckons bù hǎo should be bú hǎo, «same as bú shì, innit».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bù	bù	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	bú	bú	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
11	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bú	bú	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	shì	shì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | ★ | hǎo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:* Why not?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t6:2
# text = Why not?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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bú comes only before a falling tone, and hǎo dips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t6:o1:1
# text = bú comes only before a falling tone, and hǎo dips
1	bú	bú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
11	dips	dip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | bú | hǎo dips |  | a falling tone |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before tone=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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hǎo falls, so bù must stay low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t6:o2:1
# text = hǎo falls, so bù must stay low
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nsubj	_	_
2	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	bù	bù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | hǎo |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | must | bù |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bù rises before every word, so she's right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t6:o3:1
# text = bù rises before every word, so she's right
1	bù	bù	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | bù |  |  | every word |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before word=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | bù |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bù hǎo is rude, so it never changes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles:t6:o4:1
# text = bù hǎo is rude, so it never changes
1	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bù |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **change** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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