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Test 8 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

Mei says Wu Zetian was the only woman who ruled China. What is the exact version?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, Wu, only woman, exact version · What happens: say, be, rule · To what, where: only woman, China · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 Wu Zetian was the only woman who ruled China.

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	Wu	Wu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nsubj
4	Zetian	Zetian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wu	flat
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 ruled	nsubj
10	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ruled	obj
12	.	.	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	Wu	the only woman					tree rules
3	rule	past	the only woman	China					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent china=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 is the exact version?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 version	det
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 version	amod
5	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the exact version						tree rules

The options

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

The only woman to rule as emperor in her own name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rule	mark
5	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 woman	acl
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 emperor	case
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rule	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 name	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 name	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 name	amod
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rule	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	to-infinitive				woman's own name		as emperor	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	name		woman						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

No woman ever had power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	no woman	power			ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 3

Cixi had the same title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cixi	Cixi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 title	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 title	amod
5	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cixi	the same title					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient

Option 4

Many women had that title, both before and after her time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 women	amod
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 title	det
5	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 before	punct
7	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 before	cc:preconj
8	before	before	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 before	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod:poss
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Many women	that title			time	before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient

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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