Test 3 · ★ · School words

What would happen if you said «wǒ wáng le» with a rising tone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say, wáng, rise · To what, where: le · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 15 «School words» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 wáng	punct
8	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	9 wáng	advmod
9	wáng	wáng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
10	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wáng	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 wáng	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 tone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tone	det
14	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tone	amod
15	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wáng	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	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	wáng in a quote	gerund	you not said here	le	with a rising tone	tree rules
4	rise	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It would mean I don't know

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It would mean I'm late

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I					late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would sound like «I king» instead of «I forgot»

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	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 king	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 king	nsubj
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 sound	punct
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 forgot	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	nsubj
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					like king	tree rules
2	forget in a quote	past	I						tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, both tones mean forget, it's the same word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tones	det
4	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 word	discourse
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 word	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 word	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	infinitive			tree rules
3	is a	present	it	the same word	tree rules

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