Test 9 · ★ · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays

What would happen if you told Lín "xīngqīliù jiàn" on a Thursday?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, tell · To what, where: Lín · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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	xīngqīliù	xīngqīliù	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jiàn	compound
10	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 jiàn	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 Thursday	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Thursday	det
14	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
15	?	?	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		thursday		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

He'd expect you on 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 expect	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 expect	aux
3	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 expect	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Sunday	case
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 expect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would	He	you			sunday		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

He'd expect you on Monday

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 expect	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 expect	aux
3	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 expect	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Monday	case
6	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 expect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would	He	you			monday		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd expect to see you on Saturday

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 expect	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 expect	aux
3	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 expect	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Saturday	case
8	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would	He						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	you			saturday		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

He'd expect you tomorrow, Friday

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 expect	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 expect	aux
3	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 expect	obj
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expect	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Friday	punct
7	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 expect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would	He	you			friday; tomorrow		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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