Test 9 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

What would happen if you told Lín "zǎoshang jiàn" at home time on Monday?

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

This is test 9 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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	6 told	iobj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 jiàn	punct
9	zǎoshang	zǎoshang	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jiàn	compound
10	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 jiàn	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	compound
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 Monday	case
16	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 time	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		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lín=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

He'd think it's Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	6 Sunday	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Sunday	cop
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 think	ccomp

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

Option 2

He'd think you'll meet tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 meet	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 meet	aux
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	meet	future	you				tonight		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He'd think you never want to meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 want	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 meet	mark
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	He	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not want	present	you	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd think you'll meet in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 meet	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 meet	aux
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	meet	future	you				morning		vn meet-36.3-1 «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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