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Test 6 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

Mei says Li Bai drowned hugging the Moon. What should she add?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, Li · What happens: say, drown, hug, add · To what, where: Moon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 Li Bai drowned hugging the Moon.

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	Li	Li	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	nsubj
4	Bai	Bai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Li	flat
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drowned	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hugging	obj
9	.	.	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	drown	past	Li						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hug	gerund	Li not said here	the Moon					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Co-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: What should she add?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 add	obl
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 add	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 add	nsubj
4	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	should	Li						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

He lived on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	He			the Moon			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a legend; he probably died of illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legend	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 legend	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 legend	det
4	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 legend	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
7	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 legend	acl:relcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 illness	case
10	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a legend					tree rules
2	die	past	he	a legend not said here				of illness; probably property	tree rules

Option 3

He never wrote poems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 wrote	advmod
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write	past	He	poems					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme

Option 4

It is proven by police reports from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proven	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proven	aux:pass
3	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 reports	case
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reports	compound
6	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proven	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive	police reports	It		the river			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from river=Source

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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