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Test 8 · China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties

Mei says China was always one big country. What would the teacher point to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, China · What happens: say, be · To what, where: one big country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 was always one big country.

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	8 country	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 country	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 country	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 country	nummod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	.	.	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
2	is a	past	China	one big country				always property	tree rules

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 would the teacher point to?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 point	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 point	compound
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 point	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Roman Empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Empire	det
2	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Empire	compound
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Warring States, when rival states fought until 221 BC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 States	det
2	Warring	Warring	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 States	compound
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 fought	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fought	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 fought	mark
6	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 states	amod
7	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fought	nsubj
8	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	until	until	ADP	_	10 221	case
10	221	221	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 fought	obl
11	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 221	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	the Warring States				until 221 BC		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Great Wall, which proves it was one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wall	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Wall	amod
3	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proves	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 proves	nsubj
6	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Wall	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proves	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	the Great Wall	Wall					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	past	the Great Wall	one					tree rules

Option 4

The Moon landing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 landing	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 landing	compound
3	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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