We therefore went back in the original French transcripts and find out that in fact in some cases, relevant constructions quite comparable with Mandarin construction had been discarded when selecting the verbal form (3).
(3) a. elle a découpé le pain en deux morceaux (she cut the bread into two pieces) ; découper b. elle a partagé en deux une flute de pain (she cut into two a bread) ; partager c. elle coupe en morceaux les brocolis (she cut into pieces the broccolis) ; couper the Taiwanese data featured a lot of hapaxes like (2) that we removed for performing a second alignment.