Test 4 · Counting 1 to 10, on one hand

What would happen if you gave Ming's grandparents a gift of four pears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, give, gift · To what, where: grandparents, four pears

This is test 4 of lesson 6 «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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 gave	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grandparents	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ming	case
9	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gift	det
11	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pears	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pears	nummod
14	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gift	nmod
15	?	?	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	give a condition, not said to happen	past	you	Ming's grandparents	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Recipient gift=Theme
3	gift			four pears	nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

Some might see it as unlucky, because of sì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 see	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 unlucky	case
6	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sì	punct
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 sì	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 because	fixed
10	sì	sì	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	might	Some	it				as unlucky; because sì	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as unlucky=Attribute

Option 2

It means «I love you»

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct

#	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 clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present	I	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3

Nothing, four is the luckiest number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 number	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Nothing	appos
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 number	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
6	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 number	amod
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	the luckiest number					tree rules

Option 4

They would think it very lucky and say thanks

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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 lucky	advmod
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	conj
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They	it					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	They not said here	thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

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