Test 8 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

Why did Spanish silver travel all the way to China?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Spanish silver · What happens: travel · To what, where: way, China

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 travel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 travel	aux
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silver	amod
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	nsubj
5	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 China	case
10	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 travel	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 travel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · do-support	Spanish silver	all way	China				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To pay Zheng He

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Zheng	Zheng	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pay	obj
4	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Zheng	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive		Zheng					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zheng=Asset

Option 2

To make coins for Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Rome	case
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		coins				for Rome	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent coin=Product for rome=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To buy silk and porcelain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 porcelain	cc
5	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		silk and porcelain					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Theme

Option 4

To build the Wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wall	det
4	Wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		the Wall					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

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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