This squib argues against Yiwen Zhang’s (J East Asian Linguist 29:393–434, 2020) adjective analysis of the Mandarin word you ‘have’ to the left of a gradable noun, as in you yongqi ‘have courage’, showing that it is a verbal element. It also shows that for a gradable predicate of any category, if the question under discussion is about a comparison of individuals with respect to a gradable property, the degree word hen ‘very’ is banned; if the question under discussion is about the content of a gradable property of an individual, hen must occur; and finally, if the question under discussion is not about either of the two above, hen is optional.

这个哑炮反对 Yiwen Zhang (J East Asian Linguist 29:393–434, 2020)对可分级名词左侧的普通话单词you 'have' 的形容词分析，如在你 yongqi 中“有勇气”，表明它是一个语言元素。它还表明，对于任何类别的可分级谓词，如果所讨论的问题是关于个体与可分级属性的比较，则禁止使用度词hen 'very'；如果所讨论的问题是关于个人可分级财产的内容，则必须出现hen；最后，如果讨论的问题不是关于上述两个中的任何一个，则hen是可选的。