Test 5 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year's Eve, in a family that keeps the custom?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, family · What happens: happen, sweep, keep · To what, where: family, floor, Eve, custom

This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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	_	8 swept	mark
5	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grandad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Lín	case
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swept	nsubj
8	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swept	obj
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 swept	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 Eve	case
13	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Year	compound
14	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Eve	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Year	case
16	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 swept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 family	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 family	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 family	det
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 keeps	nsubj
22	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 family	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 custom	det
24	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeps	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would			a family		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in family=Location
2	sweep a condition, not said to happen	past	Lín's grandad	the floor	New Year's Eve	hard property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent floor=Theme on eve=Trajectory
3	keep	present	a family	the custom			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme

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

They'd say the luck had doubled for the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 luck	det
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doubled	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doubled	aux
7	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doubled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	They						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	double	past · perfect	the luck				year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, it's normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 normal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 normal	cop
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					normal property	tree rules

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

They'd joke he'd swept the luck away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 joke	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 joke	aux
3	joke	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swept	nsubj
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swept	aux
6	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 joke	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 luck	det
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swept	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	3 joke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	would	They					away property	tree rules
2	sweep	past · perfect	he	the luck					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme luck=Trajectory

Option 4

They'd give him a red envelope for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 envelope	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 envelope	amod
7	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 envelope	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	They	a red envelope	him = he			for envelope	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient envelope=Theme for it=Asset

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