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Test 5 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

Mei says the Tang was the richest country on Earth. What is safer to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Tang · What happens: say, be · To what, where: richest country, Earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 the Tang was the richest country on Earth.

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tang	det
4	Tang	Tang	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 country	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 country	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 country	nmod
11	.	.	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
2	is a	past	the Tang	the richest country		Earth			tree rules

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 is safer to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 safer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safer	cop
3	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 safer	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 safer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The only rich country ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 country	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 country	amod
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 country	amod
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 country	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One of the great powers; Chang'an was among the largest cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 powers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 powers	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 powers	amod
5	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 cities	punct
7	Chang'an	Chang'an	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cities	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cities	cop
9	among	among	ADP	_	12 cities	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cities	det
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 cities	amod
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Chang'an					among the largest cities	tree rules

Option 3

A small poor village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 village	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 village	amod
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 village	amod
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Richer than all the other countries of the world put together, by far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 countries	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 countries	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 countries	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Richer	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 countries	nmod
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 countries	acl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Richer	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 far	case
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Richer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put together	participle		all other countries of the world not said here				together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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