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Test 10 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

Zheng He's biggest ships were larger than Columbus's. Do historians agree how large?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zheng, historians · What happens: be, agree

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 29 «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» 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

Sentence 1: Zheng He's biggest ships were larger than Columbus's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 larger	nsubj
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 larger	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 larger	cop
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 ships	amod
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 larger	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 larger	cop
7	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Columbus	case
9	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 larger	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Columbus	case
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 larger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Zheng					than Columbus; large property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Do historians agree how large?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agree	aux
2	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agree	nsubj
3	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 large	advmod
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 agree	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present · do-support	historians					large property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they argue about the exact size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 argue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 argue	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argue	nsubj
4	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 size	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
7	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 size	amod
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	they					about the exact size	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about size=Topic

Option 2

No, Zheng He never had any ships at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 Zheng	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	advcl
4	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 ships	det
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	Zheng	any ships		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

Option 3

Yes, they were exactly 1 kilometre long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 kilometre	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kilometre	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kilometre	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 1	advmod
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 kilometre	nummod
7	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kilometre	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	1 kilometre					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, they were smaller than rowing boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 smaller	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smaller	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smaller	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smaller	cop
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 rowing	mark
7	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 smaller	advcl
8	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					small property	tree rules
2	row	gerund	they not said here	boats					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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