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Test 9 · China: the four great inventions

«English just stole tea» says Mei, dead angry. What do historians say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: English, Mei, historians · What happens: steal, say · To what, where: tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: «English just stole tea» says Mei, dead angry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct
2	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stole	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stole	advmod
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 angry	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 angry	amod
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Mei	amod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal in a quote	past	English	tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 do historians say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	historians						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody took anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Nobody	anything					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2

Tea came from Brazil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	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 Brazil	case
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

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

Option 3

Tea was invented in England and taken to China by British sailors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invented	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 taken	cc
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 invented	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 sailors	case
11	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sailors	amod
12	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Tea		England			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	take	participle			China			by British sailors	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to china=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fortune smuggled plants out, but tea had already spread by trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smuggled	nsubj
2	smuggled	smuggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smuggled	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	2 smuggled	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 spread	cc
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	aux
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 spread	advmod
10	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 smuggled	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 trade	case
12	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smuggle out	past	Fortune	plants				out property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
2	spread	past · perfect · passive	trade	tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme

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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