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title: «we lost nil-three, crap» How would Ming say the score? — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: «we lost nil-three, crap» How would Ming say the score? Test 3 · ★★ 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 3 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

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«we lost nil-three, crap» How would Ming say the score?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we, Ming · **What happens:** lose, say · **To what, where:** nil, score · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t3:1
# text = «we lost nil-three, crap» How would Ming say the score?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nil	nil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | we | nil and crap |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nil=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Ming | the score |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent score=Topic |

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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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sān bǐ líng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t3:o1:1
# text = sān bǐ líng
1	sān	sān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	bǐ	bǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	líng	líng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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shí sān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t3:o2:1
# text = shí sān
1	shí	shí	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	sān	sān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sān líng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t3:o3:1
# text = sān líng
1	sān	sān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	líng	líng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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líng bǐ sān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t3:o4:1
# text = líng bǐ sān
1	líng	líng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	bǐ	bǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sān	sān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **líng** | gerund |  | bǐ sān |  |  |  |  | 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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