Test 7 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

If you found a Ming bowl in Nan's attic, would it be worth millions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bowl · What happens: find, be · To what, where: Ming bowl, attic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 found	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bowl	det
5	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bowl	compound
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 attic	case
8	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 attic	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Nan	case
10	attic	attic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bowl	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worth	punct
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 worth	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worth	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 worth	cop
15	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	ccomp
16	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worth	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	you	a Ming bowl		Nan's attic			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic
2	is	would	bowl					worth property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Only if it is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 broken	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 broken	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Probably not; only rare pieces are, many were made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	7 are	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 are	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 pieces	advmod
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pieces	amod
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 many	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						many property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		many					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

It would be worthless whatever

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 worthless	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worthless	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worthless	cop
4	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 worthless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					worthless property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, every Ming piece is priceless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 priceless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 piece	det
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 piece	compound
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 priceless	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 priceless	cop
7	priceless	priceless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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