School words Lesson 15 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 .
0 Ming goes to two schools: the normal one all week, and Zhōngwén xuéxiào (Chinese school) on Saturday morning, where he learns to read and write. 1 You only ever hear the words, so you learn them by ear from him. 2 At Chinese school the teacher walks in, everyone stands up and sings out together, slowly, «lǎoshī hǎo!» (hello, teacher), and the teacher answers «tóngxuémen hǎo» (hello, class). 3 It sounds like a little choir. 5 At xià kè everyone runs out. 6 The words you'll need most when your Chinese runs out are three: tīng bù dǒng (I hear you but don't understand), wǒ bù zhīdào (I don't know) and wǒ wàng le (I forgot) — careful, wàng falls; rising wáng is a king. 8 lǎoshī hǎo («LAOW-shr HOW») is the whole class standing and greeting the teacher in a slow chorus; the teacher replies tóngxuémen hǎo, hello class. 9 tóngxué («TONG-shweh», both rising) means classmate, a little more formal than péngyou (friend); a classmate is not always a friend. 10 shàng kè («SHAHNG KUH») means lessons start or to be in class; shàng kè le! means the bell has gone; shàng xué is to go to school. 11 xià kè («SHYAH KUH») means the lesson is over, break time; shàng (up) and xià (down) often mark start and end. 13 kǎoshì («KAOW-SHR») means a test or exam; kǎo de zěnmeyàng? (how did the test go?) is the first thing many Chinese parents ask. 14 yìbǎi fēn («ee-BYE FUN») means a hundred marks, full marks; fēn also means minute and penny. 17 wǒ bù zhīdào («waw boo JR-dow») means I don't know; to a teacher, adding duìbuqǐ makes it softer. ← previous Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!next → Happy, angry, bored, scared↑ back to Chinese street This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/