Test 6 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius
Why could ideas and religions also travel the Silk Road?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ideas · What happens: travel · To what, where: Silk Road
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 travel | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 travel | aux |
| 3 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 travel | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 religions | cc |
| 5 | religions | religion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ideas | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 travel | advmod |
| 7 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Road | det |
| 9 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | compound |
| 10 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 travel | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 travel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | could | ideas and religions | the Silk Road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location road=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Traders talked, met people and carried books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | conj |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carried | cc |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | conj |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carried | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | Traders | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | Traders not said here | people | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Traders not said here | books | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
Option 2
Ideas flew by themselves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 themselves | case |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Ideas | by Ideas = idea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location |
Option 3
Nobody ever talked on the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 talked | advmod |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | Nobody | the road | ever | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The emperor posted them by plane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 posted | nsubj |
| 3 | posted | post | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 posted | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 plane | case |
| 6 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 posted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | past | the emperor | them = they | by plane | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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