Test 5 · China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties

If floods, famine and revolts all came in the same years, what would people under the Zhou think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: revolt, come, think · To what, where: floods, same years

This is test 5 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	2 floods	mark
2	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 revolts	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 famine	punct
4	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floods	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 revolts	cc
6	revolts	revolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 came	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 revolts	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 years	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 think	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	aux
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 think	nsubj
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 Zhou	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Zhou	det
19	Zhou	Zhou	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 people	nmod
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 years	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 revolts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	revolt	present		floods and famine		tree rules
2	come	past			year	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	would	people under the Zhou	the same years		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Heaven was very pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Heaven					pleased property	tree rules

Option 3

The ruler would rule for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	aux
4	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 rule	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	would	the ruler						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ruler might have lost the Mandate of Heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mandate	det
7	Mandate	Mandate	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Heaven	case
9	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mandate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	might · perfect	the ruler	the Mandate of Heaven					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandate=Eventuality

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