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Test 11 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

Mei says the Ming built the whole Wall from scratch. What is fairer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Ming · What happens: say, build, be · To what, where: whole Wall, scratch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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 Ming built the whole Wall from scratch.

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 Ming	det
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wall	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Wall	amod
8	Wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 scratch	case
10	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 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	the Ming	the whole Wall		scratch			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent wall=Product from scratch=Material

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 fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Ming built no walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ming	det
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 walls	det
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the Ming	no walls					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product

Option 2

Exactly right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 right	advmod
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The Qin built every part, and the Ming only painted it and put up flags

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Qin	det
2	Qin	Qin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 part	det
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 painted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 painted	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ming	det
9	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 painted	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 painted	advmod
11	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 painted	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 painted	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
16	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the Qin	every part					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product
2	paint	past	the Ming	part					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
3	put up	infinitive	the Ming not said here	flags					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent flag=Goal

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They built the famous brick and stone parts; earlier walls existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brick	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brick	amod
5	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 parts	cc
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 parts	compound
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brick	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 existed	punct
10	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 walls	amod
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 existed	nsubj
12	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	They	the famous brick and stone parts					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brick=Product
2	exist	past	earlier walls						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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