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title: «shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu. Yo… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics
description: «shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu. You don't. What do you say? Test 9 · ★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word

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«shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu. You don't. What do you say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ming, You · **What happens:** shut up, answer, get, ask, not do, say · **To what, where:** crisps, yǒu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:1
# text = «shut up and answer, got any crisps or not» Ming asks yǒu méiyǒu.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	méiyǒu	méiyǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past |  | any crisps |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crisp=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ming | yǒu |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent yǒu=Recipient clause=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.

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*Sentence 2:* You don't.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:2
# text = You don't.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What do you say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:3
# text = What do you say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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méiyǒu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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bù xíng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:o2:1
# text = bù xíng
1	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	amod	_	_
2	xíng	xíng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bú duì

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:o3:1
# text = bú duì
1	bú	bú	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	duì	duì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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bú shì

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:4-yes-and-no:t9:o4:1
# text = bú shì
1	bú	bú	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	shì	shì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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