Test 2 · ★★ · Counting to 100 and lucky numbers

What would happen if you paid èrshí kuài for something priced shí'èr kuài?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, pay · To what, where: èrshí

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» 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 paid	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 paid	nsubj
6	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	èrshí	èrshí	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 paid	obj
8	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	7 èrshí	flat:foreign
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 something	case
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 paid	obl
11	priced	priced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
12	shí'èr	shí'èr	X	Foreign=Yes	13 kuài	flat:foreign
13	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	10 something	conj
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	pay a condition, not said to happen	past	you	èrshí				for something	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent èrshí=Asset for something=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 · ← Mova's choice

You'd pay 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	You	2					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Asset

Option 2

You'd pay 200

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	You	200					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 200=Asset

Option 3

You'd pay exactly right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 right	advmod
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	You					right property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You'd pay 20 instead of 12

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pay	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 12	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	You	20				instead 12	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Asset

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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