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title: Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings — how Mova does on the tests · Chinese street
description: Lesson 23 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

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**Tests:** 1 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 5 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 23 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Lín's mate calls a kid in Year 2 who can't read yet "bèndàn" in front of everyone. Friendly teasing?

- **1.** Yes, it means "little friend" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, to a struggling younger kid it's rude — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** No, it means a scaredy-cat — no support
- **4.** Yes, bèndàn is always friendly, whoever hears it — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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they're all on the roof of the shed going "dǎnxiǎoguǐ, jump!!". what should Lín do?

- **1.** Push someone else off first — no support
- **2.** Jump to prove he isn't scared of anything — no support
- **3.** Not jump; the name isn't worth a broken arm — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Call them àikūguǐ and jump — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 11: «"àikūguǐ" means crybaby, literally "loves-crying ghost"; it stings, because a friend who cries needs help, not a name.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «cry» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Lín calls a friend xiǎoqìguǐ for not buying sweets, but the friend's family has very little money. Is it fair?

- **1.** Yes, it's just a joke word, no harm — no support
- **2.** No, because xiǎoqìguǐ means "rich" — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Yes, he really didn't share, so it's true — no support
- **4.** No, that teasing is unfair and hurts — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 9: «"xiǎoqìguǐ" means meanie, someone stingy who won't share; it is unfair if their family has little money.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2); the same doer «xiǎoqìguǐ» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Lín's mate trips and is really crying with a cut knee. Someone shouts "àikūguǐ!". What's the right move?

- **1.** Laugh and join in the name-calling, it's only a joke — no support
- **2.** Help him; a crier needs help, not a name — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** Shout "xiào sǐ wǒ le!" — no support
- **4.** Walk away and play — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 11: «"àikūguǐ" means crybaby, literally "loves-crying ghost"; it stings, because a friend who cries needs help, not a name.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «help» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A girl tells the teacher a big kid is hitting her brother, and gets called gàozhuàngjīng. Was she wrong?

- **1.** Yes, she should hit back — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, never tell a teacher anything — no support
- **3.** No, telling about bullying is right — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** No, but she must say sorry to him — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Lín's mate calls another boy "xiǎo pàngzi" every day at lunch. The boy goes quiet. Friendly or not?

- **1.** Friendly, it means "healthy" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Friendly, it's what grannies say — no support
- **3.** Not friendly, because it means "stupid" — no support
- **4.** Not friendly: body teasing hurts — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Same word, same day: Lín's granny says "xiǎo pàngzi" to a baby and Lín's mate says it to a classmate. Why does one sting?

- **1.** Babies don't understand Chinese — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Who says it to whom decides; kid to kid about bodies hurts — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Grannies are allowed to be rude — no support
- **4.** One of them got the tone wrong, so it meant something rude — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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In a cartoon a dad calls his son "xiǎo shǎguā" and hugs him. The subtitles say "you idiot!". What's wrong with the subtitle?

- **1.** Nothing, it's a harsh insult, hug or not — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It should say "you little brat" — no support
- **3.** It's fond, more like "you silly-billy" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It should say "you liar" — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Lín falls off his bike, laughs and gets up fine, and you say "xiào sǐ wǒ le". OK or not?

- **1.** Not OK, it's a swear word — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** OK if he's fine and laughing too — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Never OK, it means "die" — score 1
- **4.** OK even if he's badly hurt and crying — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 4: «Some body words make every playground giggle: pìgu (PEE-goo) is bottom, a childish word, not a rude one; but one word for mouth turns up in a rude "shut up!",…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «one word» (+4); the same thing acted on «bié shuō le» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Lín's mum says "lǎnchóng, qǐ chuáng le!" (get up!). How cross is she?

- **1.** Furious, he's grounded for a week — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Fond and teasing, not really cross — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Scared for him — no support
- **4.** Bored of him and his lie-ins — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Which teasing name is "silly melon"?

- **1.** chòuměi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** shǎguā — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** lǎnchóng — no support
- **4.** bèndàn — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Lín's mate reckons chòuměi means "smelly but pretty", so it's a compliment. Right?

- **1.** Yes, it's a real compliment, a nice one — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, it teases someone vain about looks — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, it means smelly feet — no support
- **4.** No, it means a crybaby at school — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the literal sense of the teasing term "bèndàn".

- **1.** Silly melon — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Lazy, sleepy worm — no support
- **3.** Stupid egg — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Small-gall ghost — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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It is given that one term of mild teasing is applied by a grandmother to an infant and by a pupil to a classmate concerning his physique. Select the statement consistent with the established principles of teasing.

- **1.** The term is equally affectionate in both instances — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only the tone of the vowels determines the effect of the term — no support
- **3.** Speaker and addressee determine whether it is fond or hurtful — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The term is equally offensive in both instances — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the reporting of genuine danger or bullying to an adult, notwithstanding the epithet "gàozhuàngjīng"?

- **1.** It is the correct course of action — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is permissible only on weekdays — no support
- **3.** It constitutes a breach of loyalty to be avoided — no support
- **4.** It warrants an apology to the bully — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Ascertain the meaning of the expression "xiào sǐ wǒ le".

- **1.** I am gravely ill and must lie down at once — no support
- **2.** I am about to depart — no support
- **3.** That is exceedingly amusing, literally "laughing me to death" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** That is deeply saddening — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 17: «"xiào sǐ wǒ le" means "that's hilarious", literally "laughing me to death", after a joke or a funny video.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/e4/)

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