Test 10 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius
An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else. What?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: alchemist · What happens: want, live, find · To what, where: something
This is test 10 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 alchemist | det |
| 2 | alchemist | alchemist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 something | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | a alchemist | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | a alchemist not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | a alchemist not said here | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Chocolate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Gunpowder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gunpowder | gunpowder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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