Exam question 1 · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius

Identify the official of the Han court credited with the improvement of papermaking.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, official, papermaking · What happens: identify, credit, improve · To what, where: official

This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 official	det
3	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
6	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 court	compound
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 credited	obl
8	credited	credit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 official	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 improvement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 improvement	det
11	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 credited	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 papermaking	case
13	papermaking	papermaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 improvement	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the official		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent official=Theme
2	credit	past	the official not said here		of the Han court; with the improvement of papermaking	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with improvement=Theme
3	improve		papermaking			nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent

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

Cai Lun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cai	Cai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lun	Lun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cai	flat

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

Option 2

Bi Sheng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bi	Bi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Sheng	Sheng	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bi	flat

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

Option 3

Qin Shi Huang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Qin	Qin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Qin	flat
3	Huang	Huang	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Qin	flat

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

Option 4

Zheng He

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Zheng	flat

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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