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Test 7 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese. Could she?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandma, Macau · What happens: say, remember, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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: Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandma	nmod:poss
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembers	nsubj
5	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 Portuguese	mark
7	Macau	Macau	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Portuguese	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Portuguese	cop
9	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remembers	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your grandma						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remember	present	grandma						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Macau					portuguese 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: Could she?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 she	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 she	punct

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

The options

Option 1

No, it was handed back to China in 1550

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 handed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 handed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 handed	aux:pass
5	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 handed	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 China	case
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 handed	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1550	case
10	1550	1550	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand back	past · passive		it	China	1550			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to china=Destination

Option 2

No, Macau was never Portuguese at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Portuguese	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Macau	Macau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Portuguese	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Portuguese	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 Portuguese	advmod
6	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Portuguese	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Macau			all		portuguese property	tree rules

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

Yes, Portugal handed it back only in 1999

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 handed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 handed	nsubj
4	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handed	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 handed	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 1999	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1999	case
9	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand back	past	Portugal	it		1999			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only in the 1800s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 1800s	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 1800s	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 1800s	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 1800s	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 1800s	det
7	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root

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

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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