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title: «12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right? — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: «12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right? Test 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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# Test 1 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

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«12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 12 èrshí · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 12 èrshí · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t1:1
# text = «12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | 12 èrshí |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | 12 èrshí |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Both mean twelve, it's whatever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t1:o1:1
# text = Both mean twelve, it's whatever
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Both | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, 12 is shí'èr; èrshí is 20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t1:o2:1
# text = No, 12 is shí'èr; èrshí is 20
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	shí'èr	shí'èr	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 12 |  |  |  |  | shí'èr *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | shí'èr èrshí | 20 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, 12 is èr èr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t1:o3:1
# text = No, 12 is èr èr
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	èr	èr	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	èr	èr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | 12 èr èr |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, èrshí is twelve, bang on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, èrshí is twelve, bang on
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | èrshí | twelve |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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