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title: A hand with fingertips pinched together means — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: A hand with fingertips pinched together means Test 9 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 9 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

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A hand with fingertips pinched together means

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** pinch, mean · **To what, where:** fingertips

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t9:1
# text = A hand with fingertips pinched together means
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pinch** | participle |  | fingertips *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a hand with fingertips |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Zero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t9:o1:1
# text = Zero
1	Zero	zero	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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Bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t9:o2:1
# text = Bird
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t9:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	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 {#o4}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:6-counting-one-to-ten:t9:o4:1
# 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.

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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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