Test 1 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius

my history channel said Gutenberg invented printing. that right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: history channel, Gutenberg, my · What happens: say, invent, channel · To what, where: printing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history 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

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	3 channel	nmod:poss
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 channel	compound
3	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gutenberg	Gutenberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 invented	nsubj
6	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 right	nsubj
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my history channel		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	invent	past	Gutenberg	printing	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent printing=Result
3	channel		my		nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=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

Yes, and he was really Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 Chinese	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Chinese	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Chinese	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Chinese	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 Chinese	advmod
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					chinese property	tree rules

Option 2

No, the Romans printed newspapers long before anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 printed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Romans	det
4	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 printed	nsubj
5	printed	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 printed	obj
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 printed	advmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 printed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	past	the Romans	newspapers			before anyone	long property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme

Option 3

Yes, nobody had ever printed anything before him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 printed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 printed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 printed	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 printed	advmod
6	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 printed	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 printed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	past · perfect · passive		nobody			before him = he; ever		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, China printed long before; he made metal-letter printing fast in Europe

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 printed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 printed	nsubj
4	printed	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 before	advmod
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 printed	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 printed	conj
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 letter	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 metal	punct
12	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 printing	compound
13	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 made	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Europe	case
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	past	China					before property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	China	letter printing		Europe		fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent printing=Product

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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