Test 10 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

What would happen if you said "bù xǐhuan" loudly about the soup at Lín's table?

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

This is test 10 of lesson 16 «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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 xǐhuan	punct
8	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	9 xǐhuan	compound
9	xǐhuan	xǐhuan	X	Foreign=Yes	6 said	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 xǐhuan	punct
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 xǐhuan	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 soup	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soup	det
14	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 xǐhuan	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 table	case
16	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 table	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Lín	case
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soup	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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

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

Nothing, it means "thank you"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct
6	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 thank	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would sound rude to his mum

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	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mum	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					to his mum; rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to mum=Experiencer

Option 3

His mum would give you more soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 soup	amod
7	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	His mum	more soup	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient soup=Theme

Option 4

Everyone would think you're full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 think	nsubj
2	would	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	6 full	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	Everyone						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					full property	tree rules

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