Test 7 · ★ · Red envelopes and New Year wishes

What would happen if you said nothing and stuffed the hóngbāo in your pocket?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say, stuff · To what, where: nothing, hóngbāo, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 26 «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stuffed	cc
9	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hóngbāo	det
11	hóngbāo	hóngbāo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuffed	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 pocket	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pocket	nmod:poss
14	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuffed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	stuff	past	you not said here	the hóngbāo	your pocket	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hóngbāo=Theme in pocket=Destination

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

Everyone would clap for being so quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 clap	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 clap	aux
3	clap	clap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 quick	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 quick	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 quick	advmod
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	would	Everyone						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	is	gerund						quick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It'd look careless; say thank you with a wish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wish	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wish	det
11	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	would	It		careless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank	present		you	with a wish	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, no one cares about that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 cares	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cares	nsubj
5	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cares	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	present	Nothing					about that	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus

Option 4

You'd get another one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	another one					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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