Test 3 · China: the four great inventions

mei reckons china only ever used gunpowder for fireworks. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mei · What happens: reckon, use · To what, where: china, gunpowder

This is test 3 of lesson 53 «China: the four great inventions» 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	mei	mei	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 used	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 used	advmod
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckons	advcl
7	gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fireworks	case
9	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gunpowder	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	mei	china					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent china=Attribute
2	use	participle	mei not said here	gunpowder for fireworks			ever		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it was also used in weapons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux:pass
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 used	advmod
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 weapons	case
8	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		it		weapons			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

No, only for medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 medicine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 medicine	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 medicine	case
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, only for cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cooking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cooking	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 cooking	case
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, only fireworks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fireworks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fireworks	advmod
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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