--- title: Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!», a lesson of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Who goes first? --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and s… # Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! Lesson 14 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/0/) — Who goes first? - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/2/) — Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, the same as rock-paper-scissors. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/3/) — Many games are ones you already know under other names: zhuō mícáng is hide and seek; «yī èr sān mùtourén!» (one, two, three, wooden man!) is Grandma's footsteps; tiào shéng is skipping. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/4/) — And lǎoyīng zhuō xiǎojī (eagle catches the chicks) has a hen guarding a wobbly line of chicks from the eagle — play it on grass, because the wobbly line often tumbles over. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/6/) — Then the trouble: «nǐ zuòbì!» (you're cheating!) and the sharper «bié shuǎlài!» (stop being a sore loser!), until someone stomps off: «bù wánr le!» — and five minutes later says «wǒ yě yào wánr». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/8/) — zhuō mícáng («JWAW MEE?-tsahng?») is hide and seek; «it» counts to ten in Chinese and shouts wǒ lái le! (here I come!). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/9/) — yī èr sān mùtourén («ee AR SAHN MOO-toe-run?») is the freeze game like Grandma's footsteps; move after «mùtourén» and you're out. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/11/) — tiào shéng («TYOW SHUNG?») is skipping with a rope; tiào (jump) falls, while high tiāo means to pick; tiào píjīn is elastics. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/12/) — wǒ yíng le («waw YING? luh») means I won; shouted too much, people call you déyì (smug). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/13/) — nǐ shū le («nee SHOO luh») means you lost; shū (lose) sounds just like shū (book), so some families avoid giving books at New Year. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/15/) — shuǎlài («SHWIGH-LIGH») means refusing to accept the rules, being a sore loser; it stings more than zuòbì, so use it only when it's true. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/16/) — bù wánr le («BOO WAR luh») means I'm not playing any more, the usual end of a quarrel. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/17/) — zài lái yí cì («DZYE LIGH? ee TSZ») means one more time; zài means again, and zài lái alone works too. - ← previous: [In the playground: come on, your turn!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/) - next →: [School words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/) - ↑ back to [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/)