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Test 9 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

Mei says the Chinese drove out the Mongols in one day. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Chinese · What happens: say, drive out, be · To what, where: Mongols · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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 Chinese drove out the Mongols in one day.

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 Chinese	det
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drove	nsubj
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 drove	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mongols	det
8	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 drove	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obl
12	.	.	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	drive out	past	the Chinese	the Mongols			day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mongol=Theme

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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Romans drove them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Romans	det
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 drove	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive out	past	the Romans	them = they					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

It took one afternoon

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 afternoon	nummod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				afternoon		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Mongols are still in charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mongols	det
2	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 charge	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 charge	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 charge	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 charge	case
6	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It took years of war after floods, famine and rebellions

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 war	case
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 floods	case
7	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 famine	punct
9	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floods	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rebellions	cc
11	rebellions	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 floods	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				after floods and famine and rebellions; year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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