Test 6 · ★ · Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!

What would happen if you shouted «kuài kǎn!» with a dipping tone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, shout, dip

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 30 «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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 shouted	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 shouted	nsubj
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 kuài	punct
8	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	6 shouted	conj
9	kǎn	kǎn	X	Foreign=Yes	8 kuài	flat:foreign
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 tone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tone	det
14	dipping	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 tone	amod
15	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		with a dipping tone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dip	gerund			vn meander-47.7-1 «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

It would mean cow, so everyone would look for one

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 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 look	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It	cow					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic
2	look	would	everyone					for one	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would mean cool

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 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It					cool property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing, both mean look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It'd sound like «quick, chop!», not «look!»

The tree, 8 words

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 sound	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 chop	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 chop	punct
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chop	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quick	punct
8	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sound	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 sound	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 look	advmod
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sound	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					like quick chop	tree rules
2	not look in a quote	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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