Test 10 · ★ · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

What would happen if you told Lín's mum "wǒ è le" at teatime?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 told	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Lín	case
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 wǒ	punct
11	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	13 le	flat:foreign
12	è	è	X	_	11 wǒ	flat:foreign
13	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	6 told	ccomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 le	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 teatime	case
16	teatime	teatime	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 le	nmod
17	?	?	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	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you		Lín's mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

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

She'd send you home at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 send	iobj
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 send	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	would	She		you			home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd happily give you something to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	She	something	you			happily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	She not said here	something not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She'd think you were rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing 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	6 rude	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp

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

Option 4

She'd give you a glass of water only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	nmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	3 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	She	a glass of water	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient glass=Theme

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