Test 5 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia
A Portuguese ship sails into Nagasaki in 1700. What is likely to happen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Portuguese ship · What happens: sail, be, happen · To what, where: Nagasaki
This is test 5 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: A Portuguese ship sails into Nagasaki in 1700.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ship | amod |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sails | nsubj |
| 4 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Nagasaki | case |
| 6 | Nagasaki | Nagasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sails | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1700 | case |
| 8 | 1700 | 1700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 sails | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sails | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | a Portuguese ship | Nagasaki | in 1700 | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into nagasaki=Trajectory |
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: What is likely to happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 likely | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, Japan had no rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 rules | det |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Nothing | no rules | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is turned away, since only Dutch and Chinese may trade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | aux:pass |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dutch | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 Dutch | mark |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 Dutch | advmod |
| 8 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Chinese | cc |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dutch | conj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 trade | aux |
| 12 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | present · passive | It | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trade | may | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is welcomed as the only foreign trader allowed in all of Japan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 3 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 trader | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trader | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trader | amod |
| 7 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trader | amod |
| 8 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 welcomed | obl |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 trader | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 allowed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Japan | case |
| 13 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 all | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | present · passive | It | as the only foreign trader | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as trader=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | allow | participle | the only foreign trader not said here | all | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
Option 4
It is given the city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient city=Theme |
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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