--- title: Weather and what Granny says to wear — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Weather and what Granny says to wear», a lesson of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Lín's granny is on a video call with China and asks "tiānqì zěnmeyàng?" — what's the weather like? — and Lín, looking out at g --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/) [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/) / Weather and what Granny says to wear # Weather and what Granny says to wear Lesson 20 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/0/) — Lín's granny is on a video call with China and asks "tiānqì zěnmeyàng?" — what's the weather like? — and Lín, looking out at grey Britain, says "yīntiān", a cloudy day, as usual. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/2/) — Tones turn weather into other things: yǔ (rain) dips but yú (fish) rises; xuě (snow) dips but xué (study) rises; lěng (cold) dips but lèng falls and means dazed. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/3/) — Chinese grannies have one rule: "chuān duō diǎnr!" — wear more layers! — and from October to May they want you in "qiūkù", long johns, literally "autumn trousers". - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/4/) — Families joke that there is a kind of cold called "Granny thinks you're cold": you will lose that argument, and it is a loving one. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/5/) — "tiānqì zěnmeyàng?" means "what's the weather like?"; zěnmeyàng is "how is it?" for anything, so "nǐ zěnmeyàng?" means "how are you doing?". - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/6/) — "hǎo rè a" means "it's so hot!"; rè is hot weather, while tàng is too hot to touch, like soup or a pan. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/7/) — "hǎo lěng" means "it's so cold!", and a parent answers "chuān yīfu!", put something on; lèng (falling) means dazed or blank. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/8/) — "xià yǔ le" means "it's raining", literally "rain has come down"; yǔ (rain) dips, while yú (fish) rises. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/9/) — "xià xuě le" means "it's snowing!", and the answer is "duī xuěrén ba!", let's build a snowman; xué (rising) means study. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/10/) — "guā fēng le" means "it's windy", literally "wind is blowing"; fēng is also in fēngzheng, kite. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/12/) — "yīntiān" means a cloudy, grey day; yīn is the dark, shady half of yīn and yáng, and a sunny day is "qíngtiān". - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/13/) — "dǎ léi le" means "it's thundering"; in slang "léi rén" means shocking or cringe. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/14/) — "dài sǎn" means "take an umbrella"; an umbrella is an unlucky present for some people, because sǎn sounds like sàn, to split up. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/15/) — "chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/16/) — "qiūkù" means long johns or thermal leggings, literally "autumn trousers", and grandparents insist on them from October to May. - ← previous: [Animals and "what animal are you?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/) - next →: [Today, tomorrow, now, later](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/) - ↑ back to [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/)