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title: Counting to 100 and lucky numbers — how Mova does on the tests · Chinese street
description: Lesson 7 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 7 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/).

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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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right?

- **1.** Both mean twelve, it's whatever — no support
- **2.** No, 12 is shí'èr; èrshí is 20 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **3.** No, 12 is èr èr — no support
- **4.** Yes, èrshí is twelve, bang on — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 2: «Order matters: a number before shí says how many tens, a number after it adds ones. So èrshí is 20, but shí'èr is 12 — swap them in a shop and you pay the wron…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «èrshí» (+4); the same thing acted on «20» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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What would happen if you paid èrshí kuài for something priced shí'èr kuài?

- **1.** You'd pay 2 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** You'd pay 200 — no support
- **3.** You'd pay exactly right — no support
- **4.** You'd pay 20 instead of 12 — **✓ 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«we lost nil-three, crap» How would Ming say the score?

- **1.** sān bǐ líng — no support
- **2.** shí sān — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** sān líng — no support
- **4.** líng bǐ sān — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 7: «èrshí («AR-shr») is twenty, two-tens; sānshí («SAHN-shr») is thirty, and in fast speech the shí in tens is said lighter.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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You ask «jǐ ge?» about the stars in the sky. Why do friends laugh?

- **1.** It's a rude word — no support
- **2.** You asked how old the stars are, by mistake — no support
- **3.** jǐ ge is for small numbers; duōshao suits big ones — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** jǐ ge means «what colour», not «how many» — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 12: «jǐ ge? («JEE guh») means how many, for small numbers; without a question it means a few: jǐ ge rén = a few people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2); the same doer «ge» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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«my mark was yībǎi fēn» What should you really hear?

- **1.** yìbǎi líng, zero — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** shí fēn, ten marks — no support
- **3.** yībǎi fēn, half marks — no support
- **4.** yìbǎi fēn, full marks — **✓ 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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A friend says «jǐ ge rén lái le» without asking anything. What does it mean?

- **1.** How many people came? — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A few people came — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Ten people came — no support
- **4.** No one came — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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«wǒ dì èr» says Ming after the race. What is his place?

- **1.** He has two legs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two points — no support
- **3.** Second — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Twentieth — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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In a game, a kid writes «88» before logging off. What did he say?

- **1.** I'm rich — no support
- **2.** Bye-bye — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** I won 88 times — no support
- **4.** I'm 88 — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 14: «wǔ èr líng (520) sounds a bit like wǒ ài nǐ (I love you), so kids giggle about it, and 20 May is a sweethearts' day online in China; 88 (bābā) means bye-bye.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «bye bye» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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

- **1.** 44 is too high up — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 44 is a lucky number — no support
- **3.** 4 sounds like «die», twice — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 44 means «ten» — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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You try the tongue-twister fast and mix up sì and shí. Why is that so easy to do?

- **1.** 4 and 10 sound alike to learners: sì and shí — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** Because 4 and 10 are written the same way — no support
- **3.** Because nobody says sì — no support
- **4.** Because shí really means four in the south — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 3: «Some numbers bring luck because of what they sound like: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (die), so many families avoid it in house…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sound» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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«thirty-one in chinese, quick»

- **1.** sānshí yī — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** sān yī shí — no support
- **3.** shí sān yī — no support
- **4.** yī sānshí — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the numeral denoted by the expression shí'èr.

- **1.** Twelve — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Twenty — no support
- **3.** Two hundred — no support
- **4.** Two — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/e1/)

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

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Ascertain the principle by which Mandarin numerals between eleven and ninety-nine are composed.

- **1.** Numerals are borrowed from English — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Units always precede the tens, as in «two-and-twenty» — no support
- **3.** Tens are named by a preceding digit, and units follow shí — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Each numeral up to one hundred has an unrelated name — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the numerical sequence 520.

- **1.** It signifies farewell in written chat — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is the official emergency telephone number throughout the country — no support
- **3.** Its pronunciation loosely resembles wǒ ài nǐ, used in jest about affection — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It denotes a perfect examination score — 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between jǐ ge and duōshao?

- **1.** The former denotes order, whereas the latter denotes age — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The former concerns money exclusively, whereas the latter concerns persons — no support
- **3.** The two are interchangeable in every context without exception — no support
- **4.** The former suits small quantities, the latter larger or unknown amounts — **✓ 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/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/e4/)

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