--- title: A friend says «jǐ ge rén lái le» without asking anything. What does… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics description: A friend says «jǐ ge rén lái le» without asking anything. What does it mean? Test 6 · ★★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Counting to 100 and lucky numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers A friend says «jǐ ge rén lái le» without asking anything. What does it mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, le · **What happens:** say, ask, mean · **To what, where:** jǐ ge, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A friend says «jǐ ge rén lái le» without asking anything. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t6:1 # text = A friend says «jǐ ge rén lái le» without asking anything. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 jǐ jǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 6 flat:foreign _ _ 6 ge ge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 rén rén X FW Foreign=Yes 9 compound _ _ 8 lái lái X FW Foreign=Yes 7 flat:foreign _ _ 9 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend | jǐ ge and rén le | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ge=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a friend *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does it mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t6:2 # text = What does it mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | le | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} How many people came? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t6:o1:1 # text = How many people came? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | many people | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A few people came ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t6:o2:1 # text = A few people came 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | a few people | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten people came ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t6:o3:1 # text = Ten people came 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Ten people | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} No one came ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t6:o4:1 # text = No one came 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | no one | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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