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Test 5 · China: the four great inventions

Mei says English named porcelain «china» after her country. What came first?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei · What happens: say, name, come · To what, where: English named porcelain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: Mei says English named porcelain «china» after her country.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 porcelain	compound
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 porcelain	amod
5	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 china	punct
7	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 porcelain	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 china	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 country	nmod:poss
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei	English named porcelain			after Mei's country		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent porcelain=Topic
2	name	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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 came first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 came	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past						first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Neither word is old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	neither word					old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The country's name; porcelain was named after it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 country	case
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 porcelain	compound
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 name	punct
6	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 named	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 named	aux:pass
8	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		name porcelain			after country		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	name		the country						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The porcelain; the country later took its name from the cups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porcelain	det
2	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 country	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 porcelain	conj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 took	advmod
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 cups	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cups	det
12	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the porcelain and the country	country's name		the cups		late property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from cup=Initial_Location
2	name		country						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tea	det
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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