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title: Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★ — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Chinese street
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★

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The 15 questions of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school with their options, 87 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t1/) — ★★★ Josh from Bristol goes «gurt easy, ge works for everything, so yí ge shū». What would a Chinese friend usually say? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t2/) — ★★★ Sienna says a river, a road and a pair of trousers have nothing in common. Why do they all take tiáo? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t3/) — ★★★ Liam from Liverpool says «boss, I'll go with yì zhāng chuáng for a bed». Is he right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t4/) — ★★★ A Chinese dragon is long and twisty like a snake. Which measure word does it share with a fish? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t5/) — ★★★ Abby from Ohio, «lowkey confused», reads 明 as «night» because the moon is in it. What does it really mean? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t6/) — ★★★ Noah's nan moans she's got «a thousand mouths to feed». Then Ming's mum says «wǒ jiā yǒu liù kǒu rén». Which number is real? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t7/) — ★★★ Freddie writes 木木 for «two trees» and asks if that's a real character. Which is the closest one? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t8/) — ★★★ Odd one out: 人, 山, 火, 明. Which is NOT a single picture? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t9/) — ★★★ Aoife from Galway says «sure, I'll guess every character from its picture, grand». What's the catch? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t10/) — ★★★ At the bubble tea shop Ming orders «sān bēi nǎichá, liǎng bēi shuǐ». How many drinks is that? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/t11/) — ★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works. Which is true? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/e1/) — Select the measure word appropriate to the noun shū in the expression «three books». — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/e2/) — Ascertain the meaning of the character 林, composed of two instances of 木. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/e3/) — Determine the number of persons denoted by the utterance «wǒ jiā yǒu sān kǒu rén». — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the composition of the majority of Chinese characters? — wrong ✗ · exam

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