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title: ★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works… — Olympiad: measure words and characters… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works. Which is true? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★

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★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works. Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, yì, zhī · **What happens:** say, zhī, be, work · **To what, where:** gǒu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters:t11:1
# text = ★★★ Aisha's mate says yì zhī gǒu is wrong and only yì tiáo gǒu works.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	yì	yì	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
9	zhī	zhī	NOUN	NN	_	12	nsubj	_	_
10	gǒu	gǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	yì	yì	X	GW	_	18	nsubj	_	_
16	tiáo	tiáo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
17	gǒu	gǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
18	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **zhī** |  | yì | gǒu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | zhī |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | present | yì |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Which is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters:t11:2
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	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 |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Both are used for a dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters:t11:o1:1
# text = Both are used for a dog
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | Both |  |  |  | for a dog | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for dog=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Neither: dogs take běn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters:t11:o2:1
# text = Neither: dogs take běn
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	běn	běn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | neither dogs | běn |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent běn=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only zhī is right for dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters:t11:o3:1
# text = Only zhī is right for dogs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	zhī	zhī	NOUN	NN	_	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only tiáo is right for dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters:t11:o4:1
# text = Only tiáo is right for dogs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tiáo	tiáo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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