---
title: «bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any. What should i… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics
description: «bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any. What should it be? Test 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/t2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Yes and no — there is no single word](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/) / t2

# Test 2 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any. What should it be?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bù yǒu, friend, it · **What happens:** say, mean, not get, be · **To what, where:** friend, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 4 «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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/4-yes-and-no/#t2).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* «bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t2:1
# text = «bù yǒu!» says your friend, meaning he hasn't got any.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bù yǒu | your friend |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | bù yǒu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **get** | present · perfect | friend | any |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* What should it be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t2:2
# text = What should it be?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bú yào le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t2:o1:1
# text = bú yào le
1	bú	bú	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	yào	yào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
méiyǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t2:o2:1
# text = méiyǒu
1	méiyǒu	méiyǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bù shì de

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t2:o3:1
# text = bù shì de
1	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	shì	shì	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bú shì yǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t2: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	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Yes and no — there is no single word, test 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/t1/)
- next →: [Yes and no — there is no single word, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/t3/)
- ↑ back to [Yes and no — there is no single word](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)