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Test 6 · China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties

Ugh, Mei won't shut up — «every general in the world learns Sun Tzu». True?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, general · What happens: not shut up, learn · To what, where: Sun Tzu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Ugh, Mei won't shut up — «every general in the world learns Sun Tzu».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 shut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shut	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 shut	advmod
6	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shut	compound:prt
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 general	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 general	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 general	det
11	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 learns	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 general	obl
15	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	parataxis
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tzu	compound
17	Tzu	Tzu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 learns	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 learns	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shut up	future	Mei						tree rules
2	learn in a quote	present	every general	Sun Tzu					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tzu=Topic

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: True?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is a cookbook, not about war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cookbook	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cookbook	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cookbook	det
4	cookbook	cookbook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 war	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 war	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 war	case
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cookbook	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a cookbook and war					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it is the law in every army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 law	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 law	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 army	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 law	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the law		every army			tree rules

Option 3

No, nobody reads it any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 reads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reads	obj
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 reads	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	nobody	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Too much; it is widely read, not by every general

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 read	nsubj:pass
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 read	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 read	aux:pass
6	widely	widely	ADV	_	7 read	advmod
7	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 general	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 general	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 general	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 general	det
12	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · passive	every general	much				widely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

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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