Test 10 · The body

What would happen if you told Lín's mum "bù téng" after a fall?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mum · What happens: happen, tell, téng · To what, where: mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 18 «The body» 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	_	12 téng	punct
11	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 téng	compound
12	téng	téng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 told	advcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 téng	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 fall	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fall	det
16	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 téng	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	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
3	téng in a quote	gerund	Lín's mum = mum not said here		after a fall	tree rules

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

She'd think you're hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
6	hungry	hungry	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	present	you					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd know it doesn't hurt

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not hurt	present · do-support	it						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

She'd call a doctor 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 call	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would	She	a doctor					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme at once=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She'd think it hurts a lot

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurts	nsubj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hurt	present	it	a lot					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Patient

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