Exam question 1 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

Identify the period during which the voyages commanded by Zheng He were undertaken.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Zheng · What happens: identify, command, be · To what, where: period, voyages, Zheng · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	during	during	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 voyages	det
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voyages	det
7	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
8	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 voyages	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Zheng	case
10	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 commanded	obl:agent
11	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 undertaken	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 undertaken	cop
13	undertaken	undertaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Zheng	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the period	which voyages obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme
2	command	participle		which voyages not said here		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Zheng	Zheng not said here	undertaken 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

From 1839 to 1842

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 1839	case
2	1839	1839	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1842	case
4	1842	1842	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1839	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

From 221 to 206 BC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 221	case
2	221	221	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 206	case
4	206	206	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 221	nmod
5	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 221	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

From 1405 to 1433

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 1405	case
2	1405	1405	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1433	case
4	1433	1433	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1405	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

From 1492 to 1504

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 1492	case
2	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1504	case
4	1504	1504	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1492	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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