Test 4 · ★ · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

What would happen if you said wǒ chī bǎo le just once and cleaned your plate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say, clean · To what, where: plate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	6 said	ccomp
8	chī	chī	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wǒ	flat:foreign
9	bǎo	bǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wǒ	flat:foreign
10	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wǒ	flat:foreign
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 once	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 wǒ	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cleaned	cc
14	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 plate	nmod:poss
16	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cleaned	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	clean	past	you not said here	your plate	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dinner ends at once and everyone stands up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ends	nsubj
2	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 ends	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stands	cc
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 stands	nsubj
7	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ends	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stands	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	Dinner						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	stand up	present	everyone						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Granny may well fill your bowl again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fill	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	aux
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fill	advmod
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bowl	nmod:poss
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 fill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	may	Granny	your bowl			again	well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient

Option 3

They'd think you hated every dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hated	nsubj
5	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dish	det
7	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hate	past	you	every dish					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus

Option 4

You'd be sent home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	would · passive		You				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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