Group A sentences Group B sentences

218 Appendix E: RTT core elements 1 GC Gucheng, Central RTT core elements

1.1 Group A sentences

Sentence Core elements 1 killed, a pig, refineextract, oil, enough, eat, one month 2 maternal aunt, fell ill, atetook, a little, medicine, better, work 3 took to pasture, cattle, not, pay attentionwatch well, ate, someone else, cropsriceseedlings, saw, makeask, pay compensation 4 not able, swim, couldn’t reach, river, opposite bank, cannot, play, with, friendseveryone3PL 5 on the road, saw, a snake, about towant to, hitstrike, bite, one mouthful 6 went, pool, catch, very many, fish, picked, chives, celebrate Dwa 7 treasure gold and silver, buried, in the ground, mistakenly thought, safea good place, by PASS, stolen 8 old man, son, village, most, clevercapable, first, studygo to university 9 chopget firewood, chopcut, foot, four people, carrylift up 10 roast, sweet potatoes, burnt, adultparents, saidcomplained, waste 11 salty, sour, spicy, all, not like, eat, sweet, teeth, all fell out 12 heard people say, tomorrow, rain, go outside, take, umbrella, otherwise, soaking wet, get sickcatch a cold 13 still not, knowmet, wife, with, 3PL, go to, far off, place, work 14 if, want, toreach, roof, left side, is, a laddersome stairs, long, from there, go up Total number of core elements for Group A: 111

1.2 Group B sentences

Sentence Core elements 15 wintercold season, cold, wearput on, very thick clothes, at home, warm oneself, anywhere, not go 16 onceone time, ate, seven bowls, cooked rice, stomach, hurt, SIM, cried 17 well, did not have, water, everyone, didn’t know, where, getcarry water, in their heartstomach, anxiouspanicked 18 in the fields, picked, vegetable, took, market, sell, want to, buyget money for, salt 19 grandfather, sold, goat, happy, bought, a hat, for megave to me 20 next doorneighbour, hung up, meat, dry, went mouldy, didn’t want 21 cutchop, vegetables, finger, elder sister, helped 3SGfor 3SG, wrap 22 day before yesterday, evening, wind, big, everyone, mistakenly thoughtguessed, ghost, ran, hid 23 didn’t, do wrong, mother-in-law, scolded, all dayuntil dark, one wordsentence, didn’t say 24 two, children, cave, look for, bats, got lost, two days later, adultparents, only then, 3PL 25 child, wore, yellow, clothes, lead, a monkey, walk up and down 26 remember, young, whenat that time, grandmother, said, skinny, every time, ate, a lot 27 three, afterwardslater, will, get marriedget a wife, thenat that time, 2PL, must, come, drink liquor 28 mistakenly thought, here, easy, turnplough, soil, difficult, stones, many Total number of core elements for Group B: 112

1.3 Group C sentences