--- title: What would happen if you told Lín's mum "wǒ è le" at teatime? — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen if you told Lín's mum "wǒ è le" at teatime? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Hungry, tired, shy, excited](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Hungry, tired, shy, excited What would happen if you told Lín's mum "wǒ è le" at teatime? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, tell · **To what, where:** mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:t10:1 # text = What would happen if you told Lín's mum "wǒ è le" at teatime? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 iobj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat:foreign _ _ 12 è è X FW _ 11 flat:foreign _ _ 13 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 teatime teatime NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | Lín's mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} She'd send you home at once ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:t10:o1:1 # text = She'd send you home at once 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | would | She | | you | | | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} She'd happily give you something to eat ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:t10:o2:1 # text = She'd happily give you something to eat 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 happily happily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | would | She | something | you | | | happily *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} She'd think you were rude ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:t10:o3:1 # text = She'd think you were rude 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | She | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | you | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} She'd give you a glass of water only ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:17-hungry-tired-shy-excited:t10:o4:1 # text = She'd give you a glass of water only 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | would | She | a glass of water | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient glass=Theme | **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. 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