Test 11 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang
Mei claims China invented chess. What should she proudly claim instead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, China · What happens: claim, invent · To what, where: chess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 54 «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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 claims China invented chess.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 claims | nsubj |
| 2 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 invented | nsubj |
| 4 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 claims | ccomp |
| 5 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invented | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 claims | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | Mei | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | invent | past | China | chess | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Result |
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 should she proudly claim instead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 claim | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 claim | nsubj |
| 4 | proudly | proudly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 claim | amod |
| 5 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | should | China | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Football
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Cards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Go, which is clearly Chinese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chinese | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Chinese | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Chinese | cop |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 6 Chinese | advmod |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Go | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | chinese, clearly property | tree rules |
Option 4
Snakes and ladders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ladders | cc |
| 3 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Snakes | conj |
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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