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title: What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year'… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year's Eve, in a family that keeps the custom? Test 5 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 5 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

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What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year's Eve, in a family that keeps the custom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandad, family · **What happens:** happen, sweep, keep · **To what, where:** family, floor, Eve, custom

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This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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/25-spring-festival/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t5:1
# text = What would happen if Lín's grandad swept the floor hard on New Year's Eve, in a family that keeps the custom?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a family |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in family=Location |
| 2 | **sweep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Lín's grandad | the floor |  | New Year's Eve |  | hard *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent floor=Theme on eve=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a family | the custom |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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They'd say the luck had doubled for the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t5:o1:1
# text = They'd say the luck had doubled for the year
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	doubled	double	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **double** | past · perfect | the luck |  |  |  | year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, it's normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, it's normal
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They'd joke he'd swept the luck away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t5:o3:1
# text = They'd joke he'd swept the luck away
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	joke	joke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | would | They |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sweep** | past · perfect | he | the luck |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme luck=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They'd give him a red envelope for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:25-spring-festival:t5:o4:1
# text = They'd give him a red envelope for it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|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	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | They | a red envelope | him *= he* |  |  | for envelope | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient envelope=Theme for it=Asset |

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