Test 6 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols
Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle. What would the teacher list?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, Mongols · What happens: say, not lose · To what, where: battle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 Mongols never lost a battle.
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 Mongols | det |
| 4 | Mongols | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 lost | advmod |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 battle | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | 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 | not lose | past | the Mongols | a battle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
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 the teacher list?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 list | compound |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Japan in 1274 and 1281, Ain Jalut and Vietnam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1274 | case |
| 3 | 1274 | 1274 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Japan | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 1281 | cc |
| 5 | 1281 | 1281 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 1274 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ain | punct |
| 7 | Ain | Ain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Japan | conj |
| 8 | Jalut | Jalut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ain | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Vietnam | cc |
| 10 | Vietnam | Vietnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Japan | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only the Great Wall, where the Ming stopped them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Wall | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wall | det |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Wall | amod |
| 4 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ming | det |
| 8 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the Great Wall | them = they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality |
Option 3
Only Waterloo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Waterloo | advmod |
| 2 | Waterloo | Waterloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nothing; she is right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | right 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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