Test 11 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

What would happen if you said "hǎo rè a" while shivering in the snow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say, shiver · To what, where: snow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 rè	punct
8	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	9 rè	flat:foreign
9	rè	rè	X	_	6 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rè	fixed
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 rè	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 shivering	mark
13	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 snow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snow	det
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shivering	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	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	shiver	gerund	you not said here	the snow	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

People would think you're hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	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 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	People						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, it means it's cold, so they'd nod

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cold	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nod	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 nod	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nod	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 nod	aux
12	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it	cold property	tree rules
3	nod	would	they		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

People would bring you a coat at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	People	a coat	you				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination coat=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People would think you meant it's hot, and laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hot	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meant	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laugh	cc
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	People		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	past	you		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	hot property	tree rules
4	laugh	present			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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