Exam question 1 · China: the four great inventions
Identify the four inventions conventionally designated the four great inventions of China.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, four inventions · What happens: identify, designate, invent · To what, where: four great inventions, China
This is exam question 1 of lesson 53 «China: the four great inventions» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inventions | det |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 inventions | nummod |
| 4 | inventions | invention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 designated | nsubj |
| 5 | conventionally | conventionally | ADV | _ | 6 designated | advmod |
| 6 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inventions | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 inventions | nummod |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 inventions | amod |
| 10 | inventions | invention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 designated | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 China | case |
| 12 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inventions | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | designate | past | the four inventions | the four great inventions of China | conventionally property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invention=Theme | |||
| 3 | invent | China | nom invention «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice
The wheel, the plough, glass and the steam engine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wheel | det |
| 2 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plough | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plough | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plough | det |
| 5 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glass | punct |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plough | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 engine | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 engine | det |
| 10 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 engine | compound |
| 11 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plough | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Paper, printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 printing | punct |
| 3 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paper | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 compass | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 compass | det |
| 6 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 compass | amod |
| 7 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paper | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gunpowder | cc |
| 9 | gunpowder | gunpowder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compass | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Silk, porcelain, tea and the kite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 porcelain | punct |
| 3 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silk | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tea | punct |
| 5 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silk | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kite | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kite | det |
| 8 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silk | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Chess, pasta, ice cream and football
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pasta | punct |
| 3 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chess | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cream | punct |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cream | compound |
| 6 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chess | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 football | cc |
| 8 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chess | conj |
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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