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Test 2 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

The teacher compares Hangzhou with London at that time. What does the gap teach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: compare, do · To what, where: Hangzhou

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: The teacher compares Hangzhou with London at that time.

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 compares	nsubj
3	compares	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Hangzhou	Hangzhou	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 compares	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 London	case
6	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 compares	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 compares	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 compares	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	present	the teacher	Hangzhou			time	with London	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hangzhou=Patient with london=Co-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 does the gap teach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teach	det
4	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teach	compound
5	teach	teach	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	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hangzhou was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hangzhou	Hangzhou	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 empty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 empty	cop
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hangzhou					empty property	tree rules

Option 2

London was much bigger, with more than a million people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 people	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 million	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 million	det
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 people	nummod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	London					with million people; big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Song cities were far bigger than European ones then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cities	compound
2	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bigger	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bigger	obl
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 bigger	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Song cities				then	than European ones; big, far property	tree rules

Option 4

Both were tiny villages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 villages	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 villages	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 villages	amod
4	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Both	tiny villages					tree rules

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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