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title: Ascertain the correct negation of the verb yǒu. — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the correct negation of the verb yǒu. Exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Yes and no — there is no single word

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Ascertain the correct negation of the verb yǒu.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** correct negation

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Yes and no — there is no single word» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/4-yes-and-no/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the correct negation of the verb yǒu.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	negation	negation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct negation |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent negation=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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bú yǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:e2:o1:1
# text = bú yǒu
1	bú	bú	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bù yǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:e2:o2:1
# text = bù yǒu
1	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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

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méiyǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:e2:o3:1
# text = méiyǒu
1	méiyǒu	méiyǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bú shì yǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:e2:o4:1
# text = bú shì yǒu
1	bú	bú	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	shì	shì	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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