Test 10 · ★ · China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Grea…

Why might Britain have copied China's idea of exams for officials?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Britain · What happens: copy · To what, where: idea

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 52 «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 copied	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 copied	aux
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 copied	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 copied	aux
5	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 idea	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 China	case
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 copied	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 exams	case
10	exams	exam	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 idea	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 officials	case
12	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 exams	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 copied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	might · perfect	Britain	China's idea of exams for officials					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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

Because exams are fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 fun	mark
2	exams	exam	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fun	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	cop
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	exams					fun property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To build a wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		a wall					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

Option 3

To sell more tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 tea	amod
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		more tea					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To choose officials by learning, not only by birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 choose	mark
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choose	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 learning	mark
5	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 choose	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 birth	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 birth	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 birth	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 birth	case
10	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	to-infinitive		officials					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent official=Theme
2	learn	gerund						by birth	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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