Test 9 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang The teacher tells the Talas prisoners story as fact. Mei read some doubts. What is wise?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, Mei · What happens: tell, read, be · To what, where: prisoners story, doubts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 tells the Talas prisoners story as fact.
det nsubj det nmod:poss compound obj case obl punct root The DET teacher NOUN tells VERB the DET Talas PROPN prisoners NOUN story NOUN as ADP fact NOUN . PUNCT 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 tells nsubj 3 tells tell VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 4 the the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 5 Talas det 5 Talas Tala PROPN Number=Plur 7 story nmod:poss 6 prisoners prisoner NOUN Number=Plur 7 story compound 7 story story NOUN Number=Sing 3 tells obj 8 as as ADP _ 9 fact case 9 fact fact NOUN Number=Sing 3 tells obl 10 . . PUNCT _ 3 tells punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 tell speech: assert present the teacher the Talas's prisoners story as fact vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
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: Mei read some doubts.
nsubj det obj punct root Mei PROPN read VERB some DET doubts NOUN . PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Mei Mei PROPN Number=Sing 2 read nsubj 2 read read VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin root root 3 some some DET PronType=Ind 4 doubts det 4 doubts doubt NOUN Number=Plur 2 read obj 5 . . PUNCT _ 2 read punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 read past Mei some doubts vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Topic
Sentence 3: What is wise?
nsubj cop punct root What PRON is AUX wise ADJ ? PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 What what PRON PronType=Int 3 wise nsubj 2 is be AUX Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 3 wise cop 3 wise wise ADJ Degree=Pos root root 4 ? ? PUNCT _ 3 wise punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 is present wise property tree rules
The options Option 1 It is proven beyond doubt
nsubj:pass aux:pass case obl root It PRON is AUX proven VERB beyond ADP doubt NOUN 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 beyond beyond ADP _ 5 doubt case 5 doubt doubt NOUN Number=Sing 3 proven obl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 prove present · passive It beyond doubt vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
Option 2 Paper came from Samarkand to China
nsubj case obl case obl root Paper NOUN came VERB from ADP Samarkand PROPN to ADP China PROPN The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Paper paper NOUN Number=Sing 2 came nsubj 2 came come VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin root root 3 from from ADP _ 4 Samarkand case 4 Samarkand Samarkand PROPN Number=Sing 2 came obl 5 to to ADP _ 6 China case 6 China China PROPN Number=Sing 2 came obl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 come past Paper China Samarkand vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from samarkand=Initial_Location to china=Destination
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer Tell it as a story; paper probably arrived earlier
obj case det obl punct nsubj advmod parataxis advmod root Tell VERB it PRON as ADP a DET story NOUN ; PUNCT paper NOUN probably ADV arrived VERB earlier ADV The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Tell tell VERB Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin root root 2 it it PRON Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs 1 Tell obj 3 as as ADP _ 5 story case 4 a a DET Definite=Ind PronType=Art 5 story det 5 story story NOUN Number=Sing 1 Tell obl 6 ; ; PUNCT _ 9 arrived punct 7 paper paper NOUN Number=Sing 9 arrived nsubj 8 probably probably ADV _ 9 arrived advmod 9 arrived arrive VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin 1 Tell parataxis 10 earlier early ADV Degree=Cmp 9 arrived advmod
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 tell speech: assert imperative you not said here it as a story vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient 2 arrive past paper early, probably property vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 4 It never happened, there was no battle
nsubj advmod punct expl conj det nsubj root It PRON never ADV happened VERB , PUNCT there PRON was VERB no DET battle NOUN 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 happened nsubj 2 never never ADV PronType=Neg 3 happened advmod 3 happened happen VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin root root 4 , , PUNCT _ 6 was punct 5 there there PRON PronType=Dem 6 was expl 6 was be VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin 3 happened conj 7 no no DET PronType=Neg 8 battle det 8 battle battle NOUN Number=Sing 6 was nsubj
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 not happen past It vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme 2 be past no battle there vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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