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Test 2 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

Mei says only silk went west. What would she find in the merchants' bags?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, silk · What happens: say, go, find · To what, where: bags · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 says only silk went west.

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	only	only	ADV	_	4 silk	advmod
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	west	west	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	silk					west property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What would she find in the merchants' bags?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 find	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 bags	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchants	det
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bags	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 merchants	case
9	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	silk			the merchants's bags			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

Paper, porcelain and tea too, and goods coming back east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 porcelain	punct
3	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paper	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tea	cc
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paper	conj
6	too	too	ADV	_	1 Paper	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 goods	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 goods	cc
9	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Paper	conj
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 goods	acl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 coming	advmod
12	east	east	ADV	_	10 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	gerund	goods not said here					east property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only pandas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 pandas	advmod
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Only gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 gold	advmod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Only silk, nothing else at all, packed in bales on the camels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 silk	advmod
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 packed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 silk	conj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 nothing	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 packed	punct
9	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 bales	case
11	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 packed	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 camels	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 camels	det
14	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 packed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	participle	silk			bales		on the camels	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bale=Destination

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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