Test 11 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

Why would a canal linking the north and south be so useful in China?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: canal · What happens: link, be · To what, where: north, China

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 linking	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 linking	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 canal	det
4	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 linking	nsubj
5	linking	link	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 linking	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 useful	cc
9	south	south	ADV	_	12 useful	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 useful	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 useful	advmod
12	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 linking	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 China	case
14	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 useful	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 linking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	link	would	a canal	the north					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent north=Patient
2	is	infinitive	a canal not said here			China		south, useful property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps out enemies

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 keeps	compound:prt
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep out	present	It	enemies					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is only for fishing

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	5 fishing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fishing	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 fishing	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fishing	case
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for fishing	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It moves grain and goods along the country

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	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 goods	cc
5	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 grain	conj
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	It	grain and goods		the country			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grain=Theme along country=Trajectory

Option 4

It makes rain

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	rain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rain=Product

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