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Test 9 · ★ · China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Grea…

The teacher uses «Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD»; Mei read about older finds. What did both learn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Cai, Mei, both · What happens: use, invent, read, find, learn · To what, where: paper, 105 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 uses «Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD»; Mei read about older finds.

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 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 invented	punct
5	Cai	Cai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 invented	nsubj
6	Lun	Lun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cai	flat
7	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 uses	ccomp
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invented	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 105	case
10	105	105	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 invented	obl
11	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 105	nmod:unmarked
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 invented	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
14	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 read	nsubj
15	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 uses	parataxis
16	about	about	SCONJ	_	18 finds	mark
17	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 finds	amod
18	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 read	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the teacher						tree rules
2	invent in a quote	past	Cai	paper		105 AD			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Result
3	read	past	Mei						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	present	Mei not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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: What did both learn?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 learn	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 learn	nsubj
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · do-support	both						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Paper came from Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Rome	case
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Paper			Rome			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rome=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dates can change with new discoveries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 discoveries	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 discoveries	amod
6	discoveries	discovery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	can	Dates					with new discoveries	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Old paper is fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paper	amod
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fake	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fake	cop
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Books are always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrong	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Books					always, wrong property	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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