School words
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 15 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 ✗
«my mate says chinese kids call teachers by first name like Mr Dave lol» Is he right?
- 1. No, they say lǎoshī or surname plus lǎoshī — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Yes, but only at the weekend — no support
- 3. Yes, always the first name, it's friendlier — score 5
- 4. No, they call all teachers āyí — ← Mova's choice · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 4: «At festive dinners even kids raise their juice and shout gānbēi! (cheers!), holding the glass a little lower than an elder's, a small, lovely sign of respect.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shout» (+4); the same doer «kids» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
«ming is my tóngxué so he's def my best friend» Is that right?
- 1. Yes, tóngxué means brother — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Yes, tóngxué means best friend for life, 100 per cent — score 6
- 3. Not necessarily: tóngxué is classmate, not friend — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, tóngxué means teacher — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 7: «tóngxué («TONG-shweh», both rising) means classmate, a little more formal than péngyou (friend); a classmate is not always a friend.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «tóngxué» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
What would happen if you said «wǒ wáng le» with a rising tone?
- 1. It would mean I don't know — no support
- 2. It would mean I'm late — no support
- 3. It would sound like «I king» instead of «I forgot» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nothing, both tones mean forget, it's the same word — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 16: «wǒ wàng le («waw WAHNG luh») means I forgot; wàng (forget) falls, while rising wáng is king and the surname Wang.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Ming's mum, as soon as he's home: «kǎo de zěnmeyàng?». What does she want to know?
- 1. How the test went — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Where his coat and bag are — no support
- 3. Who he played with — no support
- 4. What he ate for lunch — 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
«ugh, can't come out, zuòyè first, mum's strict» What's going on?
- 1. He's going to bed early tonight, at six — no support
- 2. He's at Chinese school — no support
- 3. His family wants homework done before play — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. He's ill in bed and can't go out, poor thing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 1: «When Ming's grandad comes in, Ming's mum whispers «kuài jiào yéye!» (quick, say hello to Grandad!). In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, ou…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «families» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
«ming's moody every saturday, what's his problem» What's a likely reason?
- 1. He has no homework — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He has Chinese school, like six days of school a week — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Saturday is a test day in every single British school — no support
- 4. Saturday is unlucky in China — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a game a pupil runs in shouting «xià kè!» as the bell rings for the first lesson. What should he have shouted?
- 1. wǒ wàng le! — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. shàng kè le! — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yìbǎi fēn! — no support
- 4. lǎoshī hǎo, sitting down! — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
You say «wǒ bù zhīdào» to the teacher with a shrug and nothing else. How can you make it softer?
- 1. Shout it louder — no support
- 2. Say xià kè after it — score 6
- 3. Add duìbuqǐ — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Say it twice fast — ← Mova's choice · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 2: «Then the battle begins. Granny puts the best piece in your bowl: «duō chī diǎnr!» (eat some more!). It is love, not pushing. You say «wǒ chī bǎo le» (I'm full)…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same thing acted on «wǒ» (+4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
«is fēn like marks? cos the bus driver said wǔ fēn» What did the driver probably mean?
- 1. Five classmates on the bus — no support
- 2. Five teachers — no support
- 3. Five minutes or five pence: fēn has several meanings — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Five marks out of a hundred, for showing your ticket — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 1: «Your friend Ming speaks Mandarin at home, and you pick it up the way he did as a toddler: by ear, never from a book. We write what you hear in pinyin, with lit…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+2); the same doer «little tone marks» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
«oi new kid, tīng dǒng ma? you deaf or what» You're lost in the fast talk. What's an honest answer?
- 1. yìbǎi fēn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. tīng bù dǒng — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. xià kè — no support
- 4. lǎoshī hǎo — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon shows the class greeting the teacher by sitting and mumbling. What does a real Chinese class do?
- 1. Say zàijiàn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Stand up and sing out lǎoshī hǎo together — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Stay silent and bow very low, one by one — no support
- 4. Clap three times and sit down — 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the term by which pupils customarily address an instructor in a Chinese school.
- 1. tóngxué — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. shūshu — no support
- 3. āyí — no support
- 4. lǎoshī — ✓ 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the expressions shàng kè and xià kè.
- 1. They denote a test and its result — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They denote, respectively, a teacher and a pupil — no support
- 3. They denote, respectively, the morning and the afternoon session — no support
- 4. They denote the commencement and the conclusion of a lesson — ✓ 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the expression whereby a pupil indicates that spoken words have been heard but not comprehended.
- 1. tīng bù dǒng — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. wǒ wàng le — no support
- 3. kàn bù dǒng — no support
- 4. yìbǎi fēn — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the expression yìbǎi fēn?
- 1. It denotes the sum of one hundred pounds — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It denotes one hundred pupils in a class — no support
- 3. It denotes a period of one hundred minutes of homework — no support
- 4. It denotes a perfect score of one hundred marks — ✓ 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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