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Test 3 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

Mei repeats from an old drama that foot binding was beautiful. What would her mum and the teacher say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, old drama, mum · What happens: repeat, be, say · To what, where: old drama · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 repeats from an old drama that foot binding was beautiful.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 repeats	nsubj
2	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 drama	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drama	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drama	amod
6	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeats	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 beautiful	nsubj
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 binding	compound
9	binding	binding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beautiful	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beautiful	cop
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drama	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	Mei			a old drama			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	a old drama					beautiful 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.

Sentence 2: What would her mum and the teacher say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 teacher	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	conj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Mei's mum and the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was healthy exercise that the doctors told every single family to do

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	4 exercise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exercise	cop
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 exercise	amod
4	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doctors	det
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exercise	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 family	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 family	amod
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	healthy exercise					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the doctors		every single family				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent family=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the doctors not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is still the law

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 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 law	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

It made girls run faster

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	girls					tree rules
2	run	infinitive	girls not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was a harmful custom that hurt girls; old customs can be wrong

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 custom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 custom	det
4	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 custom	amod
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hurt	nsubj
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	acl:relcl
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hurt	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 customs	amod
11	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wrong	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wrong	cop
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 custom	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a harmful custom					tree rules
2	hurt	past	a harmful custom	girls					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Patient
3	is	can	old customs					wrong property	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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