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title: What would happen if you paid èrshí kuài for something priced shí'èr… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you paid èrshí kuài for something priced shí'èr kuài? Test 2 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

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What would happen if you paid èrshí kuài for something priced shí'èr kuài?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, pay · **To what, where:** èrshí

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This is test 2 · ★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t2:1
# text = What would happen if you paid èrshí kuài for something priced shí'èr kuài?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	èrshí	èrshí	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
11	priced	priced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	shí'èr	shí'èr	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
13	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | èrshí |  |  |  | for something | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent èrshí=Asset for something=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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You'd pay 2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t2:o1:1
# text = You'd pay 2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | You | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You'd pay 200

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t2:o2:1
# text = You'd pay 200
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | You | 200 |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 200=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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You'd pay exactly right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t2:o3:1
# text = You'd pay exactly right
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | You |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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You'd pay 20 instead of 12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t2:o4:1
# text = You'd pay 20 instead of 12
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | You | 20 |  |  |  | instead 12 | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Asset |

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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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