Test 5 · ★ · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

What would happen if Ming answered your duìbuqǐ with «méi guānxi»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ming · What happens: happen, answer · To what, where: duìbuqǐ

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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 answered	mark
5	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 duìbuqǐ	nmod:poss
8	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 guānxi	case
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 guānxi	punct
11	méi	méi	X	_	12 guānxi	flat:foreign
12	guānxi	guānxi	X	Foreign=Yes	8 duìbuqǐ	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
14	?	?	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	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Ming	your duìbuqǐ				with méi guānxi	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Eventuality

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

He is saying he has connections

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 saying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
6	connections	connection	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	he	connections					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

All good: it means never mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 good	acl:relcl
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 mind	advmod
7	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 good	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	not mind	infinitive							vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He is refusing to forgive you yet

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 refusing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refusing	aux
3	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 forgive	mark
5	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refusing	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 forgive	obj
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 refusing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present · progressive	He				yet		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not forgive	to-infinitive	He not said here	you					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4

He is politely asking you to leave

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	4 asking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asking	aux
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 asking	advmod
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 asking	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	He		you			politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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