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Test 10 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

My brother says the Qing were Chinese from the south. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, Qing · What happens: say, be · To what, where: south · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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: My brother says the Qing were Chinese from the south.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Qing	det
5	Qing	Qing	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Chinese	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Chinese	cop
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 south	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 south	det
10	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Chinese	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Qing			the south		chinese 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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

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

No, they were Manchus from the north-east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Manchus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Manchus	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Manchus	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Manchus	cop
5	Manchus	Manchus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 east	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 east	det
8	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 east	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 north	punct
10	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Manchus	nmod

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

Option 2

Yes, they were Ming princes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 princes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 princes	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princes	cop
5	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 princes	compound
6	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

No, they were Mongols from Persia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Mongols	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mongols	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Mongols	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Mongols	cop
5	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Persia	case
7	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mongols	nmod

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

Option 4

Yes, they came from the far south, near Hong Kong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 south	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 south	det
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 south	amod
8	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Hong	punct
10	near	near	ADP	_	11 Hong	case
11	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	conj
12	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hong	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			the far south			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from south=Initial_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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