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Test 4 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius

You are lost at sea with a magnetised needle on a cork in a bowl of water. What can you find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: lose, magnetise, find · To what, where: You, sea

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: You are lost at sea with a magnetised needle on a cork in a bowl of water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 needle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 needle	det
8	magnetised	magnetise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 needle	amod
9	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 cork	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cork	det
12	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bowl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bowl	det
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cork	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		You		sea		with a magnetised needle; on a cork in a bowl of water	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	magnetise	participle							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: What can you find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 find	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	you						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

How deep the sea is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 deep	advmod
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deep	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 deep	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sea					deep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Which way is north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	north	north	ADV	_	3 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	which way					north property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

What time it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it	what time not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme

Option 4

Where the nearest fish is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
3	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the nearest fish					where property	tree rules

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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