Test 6 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

What would happen if you said «dǎrǎo le» to Ming's parents on leaving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, parents · What happens: happen, say, leave · To what, where: dǎrǎo le · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 le	punct
8	dǎrǎo	dǎrǎo	X	_	9 le	compound
9	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 le	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	16 leaving	mark
12	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 parents	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Ming	case
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 leaving	nsubj
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 leaving	mark
16	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	dǎrǎo le	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent le=Topic
3	leave	gerund	Ming's parents		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

They'd think you're staying the night

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 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 staying	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 staying	aux
6	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 think	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stay	present · progressive	you				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They'd think you're ill

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 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 ill	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They'd be impressed by such good manners

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	4 impressed	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 impressed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 impressed	aux:pass
4	impressed	impress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 manners	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 manners	amod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 manners	amod
8	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 impressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impress	would · passive	such good manners	They					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

Option 4

They'd think you broke something in the flat

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 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	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 broke	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 flat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flat	det
9	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	past	you	something		the flat			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient

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