---
title: Ming reads his phone number: «yāo sān bā ...». What digit is yāo? — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: Ming reads his phone number: «yāo sān bā ...». What digit is yāo? Test 3 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/t3/)

<!-- 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/) / [Counting 1 to 10, on one hand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/) / t3

# Test 3 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ming reads his phone number: «yāo sān bā ...». What digit is yāo?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ming · **What happens:** read · **To what, where:** phone number

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* Ming reads his phone number: «yāo sān bā ...».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t3:1
# text = Ming reads his phone number: «yāo sān bā ...».
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	yāo	yāo	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	_
9	sān	sān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	bā	bā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | Ming | Ming's phone number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .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 digit is yāo?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t3:2
# text = What digit is yāo?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	yāo	yāo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Zero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t3:o1:1
# text = Zero
1	Zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t3:o2:1
# text = One
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t3:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t3:o4:1
# text = Eight
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .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: [Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/t2/)
- next →: [Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/t4/)
- ↑ back to [Counting 1 to 10, on one hand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/)

