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title: Identify the numeral denoted by the expression shí'èr. — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the numeral denoted by the expression shí'èr. Exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» 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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# Exam question 1 · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

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Identify the numeral denoted by the expression shí'èr.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, denote · **To what, where:** numeral

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:e1:1
# text = Identify the numeral denoted by the expression shí'èr.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	numeral	numeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	denoted	denote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shí'èr	shí'èr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the numeral |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent numeral=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | participle |  | the numeral *not said here* |  |  |  | by the expression shí'èr | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:e1:o1:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	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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Twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:e1:o2:1
# text = Twenty
1	Twenty	twenty	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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Two hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:e1:o3:1
# text = Two hundred
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	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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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:e1:o4:1
# 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.

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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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