Test 11 · China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties

What would we need to prove the Xia dynasty for sure?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: need, prove · To what, where: Xia dynasty

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 need	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 prove	mark
6	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dynasty	det
8	Xia	Xia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dynasty	compound
9	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 sure	case
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prove	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	we						tree rules
2	prove not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	the Xia dynasty				for sure	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=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

A vote by schoolchildren

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vote	det
2	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 schoolchildren	case
4	schoolchildren	schoolchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 vote	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote		schoolchildren						nom vote «act transitive»: by=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Writing from Xia times that names it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 times	case
3	Xia	Xia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 times	compound
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Writing	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 names	nsubj
6	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 times	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 names	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund					time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	name	present	Xia times	it					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

A bigger museum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 museum	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 museum	amod
3	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A film about the Xia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 Xia	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Xia	det
5	Xia	Xia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 film	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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