Test 4 · ★ · Talking to the friend's grandparents

What would happen if you started eating before Ming's grandad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, start, eat

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 started	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	xcomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 grandad	case
9	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grandad	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Ming	case
11	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	gerund	you not said here	before Ming's grandad	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Grandad would be pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleased	cop
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Grandad					pleased property	tree rules

Option 2

You'd get a red envelope

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 envelope	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 envelope	amod
6	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It'd look rude; children wait for the eldest

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	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wait	nsubj
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 eldest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eldest	det
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	It					rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	wait	present	children					for the eldest	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, kids always eat first in Chinese homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 kids	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 eat	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 homes	case
8	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 homes	amod
9	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Nothing kids			Chinese homes		always, first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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