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title: «ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!» He was counting.… — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: «ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!» He was counting. What number? Test 1 of lesson 6 «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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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# Test 1 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

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«ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!» He was counting. What number?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ming · **What happens:** show, count · **To what, where:** gun, me

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This is test 1 of lesson 6 «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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/6-counting-one-to-ten/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:1
# text = «ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ming	ming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** *in a quote* | present · progressive | ming | a gun | me |  |  | with ming's fingers | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gun=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:* He was counting.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:2
# text = He was counting.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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 | **count** | past · progressive | ming |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* What number?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:3
# text = What number?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:o1:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:o2:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:o3:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t1:o4:1
# text = Eight
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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