Test 11 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius
In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis. Which real thing is this most like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: trade, be · To what, where: silk, game, this
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 trade | nsubj |
| 5 | trade | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 horses | case |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trade | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 oasis | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 oasis | det |
| 11 | oasis | oasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trade | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | present | you | silk | a game | for horses; at a oasis | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme for horse=Co-Theme |
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: Which real thing is this most like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 this | cop |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thing | nmod |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 this | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A Silk Road caravan trade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trade | det |
| 2 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | compound |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | compound |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A Viking raid on a monastery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 raid | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raid | compound |
| 3 | raid | raid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 monastery | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monastery | det |
| 6 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raid | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A Roman chariot race
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 race | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 race | amod |
| 3 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 race | compound |
| 4 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
An Olympic game in Greece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 2 | Olympic | olympic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 game | amod |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Greece | case |
| 5 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 game | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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