Exam question 2 · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

Identify the religion that, originating in India, was transmitted into China by way of the Silk Road.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, religion, way · What happens: identify, originate, transmit · To what, where: religion, India, China

This is exam question 2 of lesson 54 «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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	3 religion	det
3	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 originating	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 originating	punct
6	originating	originate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 religion	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 India	case
8	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 originating	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 transmitted	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 transmitted	aux:pass
11	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 China	case
13	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 transmitted	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 way	case
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transmitted	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Road	det
18	Silk	Silk	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Road	compound
19	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 way	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the religion		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent religion=Theme
2	originate	gerund	the religion		India	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	transmit	past · passive	way of the Silk Road		China	vn send-11.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Philosophical Daoism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Daoism	amod
2	Daoism	Daoism	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Shinto of Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Shinto	det
2	Shinto	Shinto	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Japan	case
4	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Shinto	nmod

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

Option 3

Confucianism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confucianism	Confucianism	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Buddhism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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