Dinner at the friend's house
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 11 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.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · wrong ✗
«ming's mum shouted chī fàn le but i was mid game so i waited» What should you have done?
- 1. Shouted bú yào, so she knows you're busy — ← Mova's choice · score 16
- 2. Asked for dinner in your room — no support
- 3. Gone at once; waiting to be called twice is rude — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Waited, it's polite to finish whatever you're doing — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 16, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 5, line 2: «Chinese names put the family name first. Ming's full name is Wáng Míng: Wáng is the whole family's name, Míng is his own, and when his mum shouts «Wáng Míng!»…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «shout» (+4); the same doer «mum» (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
You stick your chopsticks straight up in the rice to free your hands. Why does Granny frown?
- 1. It means you hate her rice — no support
- 2. It means «more please» — no support
- 3. It's a rude word in China, said with hands — no support
- 4. It looks like funeral incense — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 15: «kuàizi («KWIGH-dz») are chopsticks; upright in rice they look like incense at a funeral, and pointing them or tapping the bowl is bad manners.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
«zhōu is porridge so where's the sugar» What's right?
- 1. It always comes with jam, just ask — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's salty congee, with pickles or egg — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It's a sweet pudding with red beans — no support
- 4. It's a kind of noodle — no support
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
Test 4 · right ✓
At Ming's birthday you cut his noodles to make them easier. What might Granny say?
- 1. Cut them smaller, he's only little — score 3
- 2. Long noodles mean long life, don't cut them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 3. Well done, that's very polite and thoughtful of you — no support
- 4. Noodles are for adults — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 11, line 9: «miàntiáo («MYEN-tyow?») are noodles; slurping is fine, and on birthdays long noodles are not cut, because they mean long life.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «mean» (+3); the same thing acted on «long life» (+3); the same doer «birthdays» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
«ask for hóngshāoròu, it's the best» at a friend's who doesn't eat pork. What's right?
- 1. Bring some yourself in a box — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Tell them it's rude not to cook it — no support
- 3. Don't ask; they won't cook it, and that's fine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ask loudly, they'll make it specially for a guest — no support
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
Test 6 · wrong ✗
You drum on your bowl with your kuàizi waiting for food. What do the grown-ups think?
- 1. It's a fun game — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It means you're full — no support
- 3. It's how you say thank you — no support
- 4. It's bad manners — ✓ the right answer · no support
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
Test 7 · right ✓
«dare ya to eat chòu dòufu» What is it?
- 1. Stinky tofu, which really smells — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Rotten eggs kept for a hundred years — no support
- 3. Burnt rice from the bottom of the pot — no support
- 4. Spicy noodles — no support
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
Test 8 · right ✓
In a cartoon someone bites into a mántou and finds pork inside. What was it really?
- 1. A zhōu — no support
- 2. A jiǎozi — no support
- 3. A bāozi; mántou has no filling — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. A kuàizi — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 8: «mántou («MAHN?-toe») is a plain steamed bun with no filling; with a filling it is a bāozi.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «filling» (+2); the same thing acted on «bāozi» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · right ✓
What would happen if you shouted «lái le!» when Ming's mum calls dinner?
- 1. It means «go away» — no support
- 2. It means «I'm not hungry» — no support
- 3. It means «what's for dinner?» — no support
- 4. All good: it means «coming!» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 1: «From the kitchen Ming's mum calls «chī fàn le!» (dinner's ready!), literally «eating rice now». You shout «lái le!» (coming!) and go at once — waiting to be ca…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
«tomato and egg again, every family makes it the same» What is true?
- 1. It is a sweet dessert — no support
- 2. Only restaurants make it — no support
- 3. Everyone follows one official recipe from school — no support
- 4. Every family makes it a bit differently — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 13: «xīhóngshì chǎo jīdàn («SHEE-hong?-shr CHAOW JEE-dahn») is tomato and egg stir-fry, the most famous home dish, which every family cooks a little differently; so…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cook» (+4); the same doer «family» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
You hold your rice bowl up close at Ming's. Ming's dad smiles. Why?
- 1. That's good manners at a Chinese table — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He wants you to put it down — no support
- 3. He thinks you're cold — no support
- 4. He thinks you're messy — no support
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
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the customary meaning of the announcement chī fàn le.
- 1. That the meal is ready and all are summoned to the table — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. That the guest is invited to depart — no support
- 3. That rice is to be purchased from the market — no support
- 4. That the speaker has finished eating and may now leave the table — no support
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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the principal reason for which chopsticks should not be placed upright in a bowl of rice.
- 1. It signifies that the meal is unsatisfactory to the guest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It obstructs other diners — no support
- 3. The arrangement resembles incense offered at funerals — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It damages the chopsticks irreparably — no support
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
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning zhōu.
- 1. It is a sweet oat porridge served with milk and sugar — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. It is a festive dumpling — no support
- 3. It is a savoury rice porridge eaten at breakfast or in illness — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. It is a fried noodle dish — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 11, line 11: «zhōu («joe», high) is rice porridge (congee), eaten for breakfast or when ill; it is salty, with pickles or egg on top.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «zhōu» (+2); the same thing acted on «rice porridge» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between mántou and bāozi?
- 1. Both denote boiled dumplings — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Both denote fried rice — no support
- 3. The former contains a filling, whereas the latter is plain — no support
- 4. The former is a plain steamed bun; the latter has a filling — ✓ the right answer · no support
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
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