Test 10 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

How could a European like Ricci be buried in Beijing with honour?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: bury · To what, where: European, Beijing

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 buried	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 buried	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 European	det
4	European	European	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 buried	nsubj:pass
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Ricci	case
6	Ricci	Ricci	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 European	nmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 buried	aux:pass
8	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Beijing	case
10	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 buried	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 honour	case
12	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buried	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 buried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	could · passive		a European like Ricci		Beijing		with honour	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in beijing=Destination

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

He was a Ming admiral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 admiral	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 admiral	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 admiral	det
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 admiral	compound
5	admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a Ming admiral					tree rules

Option 2

He was the emperor's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 emperor	det
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 emperor	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the emperor's son					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He learned Chinese well and was greatly respected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 learned	xcomp
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 learned	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 respected	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 respected	aux:pass
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	8 respected	advmod
8	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 learned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	He					chinese, well property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	respect	past · passive	He not said here					greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

Option 4

He conquered China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conquered	nsubj
2	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 conquered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	past	He	China					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Patient

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