Counting 1 to 10, on one hand
Tests: 2 of 10 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 3 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 6 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 showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!» He was counting. What number?
- 1. Two — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ten — no support
- 3. Five — no support
- 4. Eight — ✓ 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 2 · wrong ✗
«èr ge píngguǒ please» — Ming's sister giggles. What should it be?
- 1. sì ge píngguǒ — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. èr èr píngguǒ — no support
- 3. liǎng ge píngguǒ — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. liǎng liǎng píngguǒ — 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 3 · wrong ✗
Ming reads his phone number: «yāo sān bā ...». What digit is yāo?
- 1. Zero — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Seven — no support
- 4. Eight — 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 ✓
What would happen if you gave Ming's grandparents a gift of four pears?
- 1. Some might see it as unlucky, because of sì — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It means «I love you» — no support
- 3. Nothing, four is the luckiest number — no support
- 4. They would think it very lucky and say thanks — 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 ✓
Counting «bā, jiǔ, shǐ!» What did you say last?
- 1. Ten, correctly — no support
- 2. Eleven — no support
- 3. Poo, not ten — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Nine again — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 3: «That is why Ming falls about laughing when you ask for táng (sweets) instead of tāng (soup), or count shǐ (poo) instead of shí (ten).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «shǐ» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
In a cartoon a British kid shows three with thumb, index and middle finger in China. Is it wrong?
- 1. No, every country counts to three on hands the same way — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Yes, in China that hand sign is a rude word — no support
- 3. Yes, it means eight — no support
- 4. Understood, but Chinese kids use index, middle and ring — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 7: «sān («sahn», high) is three; on Chinese hands three is usually index, middle and ring finger, not the British thumb and two.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «chinese hands» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
«bloody lift, our flat's on floor 4 and nan won't take it» Why might she dislike 4?
- 1. 4 means «poo» in Chinese — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Floor 4 is the emperor's floor — no support
- 3. sì sounds like the word for death — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 4 is too high up for her to climb — no support
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
Test 8 · wrong ✗
Ming says «liù liù liù!» after you score. What does he mean?
- 1. You're cheating! — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Six goals to me! — no support
- 3. You're so good! — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Game over! — 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 9 · wrong ✗
A hand with fingertips pinched together means
- 1. Zero — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bird — no support
- 3. Seven — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ten — 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 10 · wrong ✗
Which counting is right?
- 1. yī, èr, sān, shí, wǔ — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yī, èr, sān, sì, wǔ — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yāo, liǎng, sān, sì, wǔ — no support
- 4. yī, èr, sì, sān, wǔ — no support
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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the numeral employed for «two» when it precedes a measure word, as in «two persons».
- 1. yāo — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. èr — no support
- 3. liǎng — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. shí — 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 the numeral sì is regarded by many families as inauspicious.
- 1. It resembles the word for excrement — no support
- 2. It was the number reserved for the emperor — no support
- 3. Its pronunciation resembles the verb signifying «to die» — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is regarded as an odd number and therefore unfortunate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «sì» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established usage of yāo.
- 1. It denotes the numeral seven when telephone numbers are read aloud — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is the numeral zero — no support
- 3. It denotes the digit one when numbers are read digit by digit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It denotes two of an object — 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 hand sign formed by the extended thumb and index finger?
- 1. It signifies defeat in a game — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It constitutes a threatening gesture — no support
- 3. It denotes the numeral eight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It denotes the numeral two — 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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