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Test 3 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

The teacher says Buddhism is Indian, Mei says Chinese. Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Buddhism, Mei · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: The teacher says Buddhism is Indian, Mei says Chinese.

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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Indian	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Indian	cop
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
8	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
10	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Buddhism					indian property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

Sentence 2: Who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only Mei, because it first began in China under the Tang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Mei	advmod
2	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mei	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 began	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 began	advmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 Tang	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tang	det
12	Tang	Tang	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Mei			China		under the Tang; first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both: Indian in origin, Chinese in many later forms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Indian	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Indian	punct
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 origin	case
5	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Indian	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Chinese	punct
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Indian	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 forms	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forms	amod
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 forms	advmod
11	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Indian	obl

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

Option 3

Only the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 teacher	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Neither; it began in Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	it			Rome		neither property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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