Test 11 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

Why did China guard the secret of silk so carefully?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: China · What happens: guard · To what, where: secret

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 guard	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guard	aux
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 guard	nsubj
4	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 silk	case
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secret	nmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 carefully	advmod
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 guard	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 guard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past · do-support	China	the secret of silk				carefully property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Beneficiary

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

Option 1

Silk moths were dangerous and stung anyone who came near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moths	compound
2	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stung	cc
6	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	conj
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 stung	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anyone	acl:relcl
10	near	near	ADV	_	9 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Silk moths		dangerous property	tree rules
2	sting	past	Silk moths not said here	anyone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer
3	come	past			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nobody wanted silk, so they kept it hidden from shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 kept	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	obj
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 kept	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 shame	case
11	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody	silk		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silk=Theme
2	keep	past	they	silk		tree rules
3	hide	participle	silk not said here		shame	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from shame=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Silk was precious and sold for a lot along trade routes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 precious	cop
3	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sold	cc
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 precious	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 lot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obl
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 routes	case
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 routes	compound
11	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Silk					precious property	tree rules
2	sell	participle	Silk not said here					for a lot; along trade routes	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for lot=Asset

Option 4

Silk was poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Silk					poisonous property	tree rules

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