Test 6 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

What would happen if you shouted «kuài pào!» with a falling tone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, shout, fall

This is test 6 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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 shouted	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 shouted	nsubj
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 kuài	punct
8	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	6 shouted	conj
9	pào	pào	X	Foreign=Yes	8 kuài	flat
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 tone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tone	det
14	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tone	amod
15	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		with a falling tone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

You'd shout «quick, cannon!» instead of «run»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 shout	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shout	aux
3	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 quick	punct
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shout	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cannon	punct
7	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shout	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shout	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 shout	punct
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 run	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 run	case
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 run	punct
13	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shout	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	would	You						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 2

It's the polite way to say «run»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the polite way	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run in a quote	infinitive			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It means «got you»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	past		you					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would run, because it's just the same word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 word	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 word	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 word	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 word	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 word	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	Everyone						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	the same word					tree rules

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