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title: Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!» What did you say last? — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!» What did you say last? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

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Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!» What did you say last?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, say · **To what, where:** bā, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t5:1
# text = Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!»
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	bā	bā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	jiǔ	jiǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shǐ	shǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund |  | bā and jiǔ and shǐ |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bā=Theme |

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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:* What did you say last?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t5:2
# text = What did you say last?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|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	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | you | last |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme last=Manner |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ten, correctly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t5:o1:1
# text = Ten, correctly
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eleven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t5:o2:1
# text = Eleven
1	Eleven	eleven	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Poo, not ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t5:o3:1
# text = Poo, not ten
1	Poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nine again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t5:o4:1
# text = Nine again
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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