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title: Mandarin compared with English — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 14 test and exam questions of lesson 34 «Mandarin compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mandarin compared with English

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The 14 questions of lesson 34 «Mandarin compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 82 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t1/) — Your mate goes "tones are just a Chinese accent, innit, doesn't change nothin'." What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t2/) — What would happen if you said "mà" (scold) when you meant "mā" (mother)? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t3/) — Your Gen Alpha cousin says "Chinese has no past tense so they can't talk about yesterday, that's crazy, no cap." ("No cap" means honestly.) What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t4/) — A cartoon shows a kid learning "the Chinese alphabet A to Z". What's wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t5/) — Your mum, a big gamer back in the day, says "be gung ho, charge in!" What does she mean in English today? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t6/) — Your uncle from Singapore says "this market very crowded lah, people mountain people sea." ("Lah" is a little word at the end of a sentence in Singapore English.) What does he mean? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t7/) — Your mate thinks "all Chinese people speak the same language." What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t8/) — Oscar wants to ask "you good?" in Mandarin. What does he say? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t9/) — Your sis says "English has nothing like measure words, they're weird." What's fair? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/t10/) — Your dad says "long time no see is definitely Chinese, end of." What should you say? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises Mandarin as a tonal language? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/e2/) — Identify the means by which Mandarin indicates that an action is completed. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the English expression "long time no see". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/e4/) — Ascertain the function of the particle "吗" (ma) at the end of a Mandarin sentence. — wrong ✗ · exam

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