Test 11 · ★ · Yes and no — there is no single word

What would happen if you answered every question with hǎo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, answer · To what, where: question

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 hǎo	case
10	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	8 question	nmod
11	?	?	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	you	every question				with hǎo	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=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 · ✓ the right answer

Sometimes it fits, but often it would sound odd or wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 fits	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fits	nsubj
3	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sound	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sound	cc
6	often	often	ADV	_	9 sound	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sound	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sound	aux
9	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fits	conj
10	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sound	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 wrong	cc
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 odd	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	it					sometimes property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	sound	would	it					odd, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It is perfect Chinese

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	4 Chinese	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Chinese	cop
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Chinese	amod
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					chinese property	tree rules

Option 3

People would think you had said goodbye and were leaving now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
2	would	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 said	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 think	ccomp
7	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leaving	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leaving	aux
10	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 leaving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	People			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	you	goodbye		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · progressive	you not said here		now	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Everyone would think you are angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 think	nsubj
2	would	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 angry	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp

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

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