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title: Ming's granny frowns at room 44 in a hotel. Why? — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: Ming's granny frowns at room 44 in a hotel. Why? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

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Ming's granny frowns at room 44 in a hotel. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** granny · **What happens:** frown · **To what, where:** room

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ming's granny frowns at room 44 in a hotel.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t9:1
# text = Ming's granny frowns at room 44 in a hotel.
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	frowns	frown	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | present | Ming's granny |  |  | room in a hotel |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t9:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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44 is too high up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t9:o1:1
# text = 44 is too high up
1	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 44 |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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44 is a lucky number

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t9:o2:1
# text = 44 is a lucky number
1	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	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 | 44 | a lucky number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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4 sounds like «die», twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t9:o3:1
# text = 4 sounds like «die», twice
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | 4 |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | infinitive | 4 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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44 means «ten»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers:t9:o4:1
# text = 44 means «ten»
1	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | 44 | ten |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Topic |

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