Test 4 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

Why did American silver end up in China?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: American silver · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: China

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silver	amod
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 China	case
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 end	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	end up	present	American silver					in China result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in china=Result

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

China wanted silver and sold silk, tea and porcelain for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sold	cc
5	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tea	punct
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silk	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 porcelain	cc
10	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silk	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	China	silver					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silver=Theme
2	sell	past	China not said here	silk and tea and porcelain				for porcelain	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent silk=Theme for it=Asset

Option 2

Chinese ships dug it up in Mexico

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ships	amod
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dug	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 dug	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Mexico	case
7	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	Chinese ships	it		Mexico			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mexico=Location

Option 3

Silver floated across the Pacific on the strong ocean currents to China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 Pacific	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pacific	det
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 currents	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 currents	det
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 currents	amod
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 currents	compound
10	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 floated	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 China	case
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 currents	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	participle	Silver			the Pacific		on the strong ocean currents to China	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme across pacific=Source on current=Trajectory

Option 4

China owned the silver mines in Bolivia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mines	det
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mines	compound
5	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 owned	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Bolivia	case
7	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	China	the silver mines		Bolivia			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mine=Theme

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