Test 8 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols
The teacher says the plague came from China, Mei says from Europe. What do scientists now say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, plague, Mei, scientists · What happens: say, come · To what, where: China, Europe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 says the plague came from China, Mei says from Europe.
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 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plague | det |
| 5 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Europe | case |
| 13 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the plague | China | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Mei | Europe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 do scientists now say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | scientists | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Definitely from Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Europe | case |
| 3 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Definitely | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Definitely from America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 3 America | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 America | case |
| 3 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It probably started in Central Asia
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 | 3 started | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Asia | case |
| 5 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Asia | flat |
| 6 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | It | Central Asia | probably property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
From the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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