Test 1 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols
Mei says the Song had the first factories. What is the more exact claim?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Song, exact claim · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: first factories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 55 «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 Song had the first factories.
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 Song | det |
| 4 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 factories | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 factories | amod |
| 8 | factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | 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 | have | past | the Song | the first factories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Patient |
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 more exact claim?
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 | 6 claim | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 exact | advmod |
| 5 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 claim | amod |
| 6 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the exact claim | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No workshops at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 workshops | det |
| 2 | workshops | workshop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 workshops | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Large workshops, iron works and the first paper money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 workshops | amod |
| 2 | workshops | workshop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | compound |
| 5 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 workshops | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 money | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 money | amod |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 money | compound |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 workshops | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Factories with robots and moving belts, just like today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 robots | case |
| 3 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Factories | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 belts | cc |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 belts | amod |
| 6 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Factories | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 today | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 today | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 today | case |
| 10 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Factories | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Car factories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 factories | compound |
| 2 | factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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