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

Mei says the Forbidden City was built in one year. What did the teacher have right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, teacher · What happens: say, build, have · To what, where: Forbidden City · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 56 «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» 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 Forbidden City was built in one year.

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	5 City	det
4	Forbidden	Forbidden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 City	compound
5	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 year	nummod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	.	.	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	build	past · passive		the Forbidden City			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 did the teacher have right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 have	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the teacher					right property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was never finished

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 finished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 finished	advmod
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not finish	past · passive		It					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It took from 1406 to 1420

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	from	from	ADP	_	4 1406	case
4	1406	1406	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 took	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 1420	case
6	1420	1420	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 1406	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It			1406 to 1420			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from 1406=Initial_Location

Option 3

It took one week

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 week	nummod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4

One year is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One year					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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