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Test 10 · China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties

Mei says China kept silk secret for exactly 3,000 years. What is wiser to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, China · What happens: say, keep, be · To what, where: silk secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 51 «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» 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: Mei says China kept silk secret for exactly 3,000 years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secret	compound
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 3,000	advmod
9	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	past	China	silk secret			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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: What is wiser to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wiser	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wiser	cop
3	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wiser	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wiser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wise property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

China guarded it a very long time; the exact length is unknown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	nsubj
2	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guarded	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 unknown	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 length	det
10	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 length	amod
11	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unknown	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unknown	cop
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 guarded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	China	it			time		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	is	present	the exact length					unknown property	tree rules

Option 2

Silk came from Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Rome	case
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Silk			Rome			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rome=Initial_Location

Option 3

Exactly 3,000 years, to the very day, as written in the old books

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 3,000	advmod
2	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 written	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 written	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 written	mark
11	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 books	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 books	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 books	amod
15	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle · passive		3,000 years to the day		the old books			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination

Option 4

Silk was never secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 secret	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 secret	advmod
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Silk					secret property	tree rules

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