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Test 6 · China: the four great inventions

The teacher names Greek crossbows, Mei names Chinese ones. Can both be right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, Mei · What happens: name, be · To what, where: Greek crossbows, Chinese ones

This is test 6 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: The teacher names Greek crossbows, Mei names Chinese ones.

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 names	nsubj
3	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crossbows	amod
5	crossbows	crossbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 names	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 names	punct
7	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 names	nsubj
8	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 names	conj
9	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 names	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 names	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present	the teacher	Greek crossbows					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossbow=Theme
2	name	present	Mei	Chinese ones					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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: Can both be right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 right	aux
2	both	both	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

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

The options

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

Yes, some things were invented in more than one place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 invented	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 invented	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 invented	aux:pass
6	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 one	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 place	nummod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		some things		one place			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 2

Only the Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Chinese	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chinese	det
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

No, only one place can ever invent anything, so one of them copied

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 invent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 place	nummod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invent	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 invent	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 invent	advmod
8	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 invent	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 invent	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 one	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	can	one place	anything			ever	one of them obl	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Result
2	copy	participle							vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only the Greeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Greeks	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Greeks	det
3	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	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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