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Test 3 · ★ · China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Grea…

A video says the tomb is never opened because of a deadly curse. What is the real reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video, real reason · What happens: say, not open, be · To what, where: tomb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A video says the tomb is never opened because of a deadly curse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tomb	det
5	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	aux:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 opened	advmod
8	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
9	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 curse	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 curse	det
12	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 curse	amod
13	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not open	present · passive		the tomb				because a deadly curse	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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.

Sentence 2: What is the real reason?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A curse proven by scientists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 curse	det
2	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 curse	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 scientists	case
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	participle		a curse not said here				by scientists	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Careful preservation of what is inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 preservation	amod
2	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 what	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 what	advmod

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

Option 3

It has already been emptied

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	5 emptied	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 emptied	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	5 emptied	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 emptied	aux:pass
5	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	empty	present · perfect · passive		It					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 4

It is under a lake

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	5 lake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lake	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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