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Test 2 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

A tour guide repeats «9,999 rooms». What would Mei, who read the survey, say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tour guide, Mei · What happens: repeat, read, say · To what, where: 9,999 rooms, survey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: A tour guide repeats «9,999 rooms».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guide	det
2	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guide	compound
3	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeats	nsubj
4	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 rooms	punct
6	9,999	9,999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 rooms	nummod
7	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 repeats	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 rooms	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 repeats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	a tour guide	9,999 rooms					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Eventuality

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 would Mei, who read the survey, say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
3	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 read	nsubj
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Mei	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 survey	det
8	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mei	punct
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Mei	the survey					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent survey=Topic
2	say speech: assert	would	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A lovely legend; surveys count about 8,700

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 legend	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 legend	amod
3	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 count	punct
5	surveys	survey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 count	nsubj
6	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 legend	conj
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 8,700	advmod
8	8,700	8,700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	surveys	8,700					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8,700=Theme

Option 2

It has 10,000 and one

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 has	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 one	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 10,000	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	10,000					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 10000=Patient

Option 3

It has no rooms

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 rooms	det
4	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no rooms					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient

Option 4

It is exactly true, every room has been counted

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counted	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counted	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 counted	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 counted	aux:pass
10	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 true	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					exactly, true property	tree rules
2	count	present · perfect · passive		every room					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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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