Test 5 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages
Mei: «Africa sent a dragon to China!» What really arrived?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Africa · What happens: send, arrive · To what, where: Mei, China
This is test 5 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: «Africa sent a dragon to China!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mei | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 4 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | past | Africa | Mei | China | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme to china=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.
Sentence 2: What really arrived?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle · passive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A giraffe the court took for a qilin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 giraffe | det |
| 2 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 court | det |
| 4 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 qilin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 qilin | det |
| 8 | qilin | qilin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a giraffe | for a qilin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for qilin=Beneficiary |
Option 3
An elephant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A real dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragon | amod |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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