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Test 5 · ★ · China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Grea…

The teacher says the Qin built the Wall; Mei says the Ming. Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Qin, Mei · What happens: say, build, be · To what, where: Wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: The teacher says the Qin built the Wall; Mei says the Ming.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	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 Qin	det
5	Qin	Qin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 built	nsubj
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wall	det
8	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ming	det
13	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	build	past	the Qin	the Wall					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product
3	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: Who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only Mei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Mei	advmod
2	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Only the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 teacher	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Neither; the Romans built it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 built	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Romans	det
4	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the Romans	it				neither property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both partly; different dynasties built different parts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dynasties	det
2	partly	partly	ADV	_	4 different	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 partly	punct
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dynasties	amod
5	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 built	nsubj
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parts	amod
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	both different dynasties	different parts					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset part=Product

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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