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Test 11 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

Mei says the last emperor ended up a gardener. Is that a film fantasy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, last emperor · What happens: say, end up, be · To what, where: gardener, film fantasy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 57 «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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 last emperor ended up a gardener.

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	5 emperor	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 emperor	amod
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	nsubj
6	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 ended	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gardener	det
9	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	obj
10	.	.	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	end up	past	the last emperor	a gardener					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient gardener=Result

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: Is that a film fantasy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fantasy	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 fantasy	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fantasy	det
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fantasy	compound
5	fantasy	fantasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fantasy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a film fantasy					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, after prison Puyi really worked at a botanical garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worked	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 worked	mark
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	nsubj
5	Puyi	Puyi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 prison	appos
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 worked	advmod
7	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 garden	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 garden	det
10	botanical	botanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 garden	amod
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	prison					at a botanical garden	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=Theme

Option 2

Yes, a pure invention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 invention	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 invention	det
4	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 invention	amod
5	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, he became a footballer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 footballer	det
6	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	he	a footballer					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, he died as emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 emperor	case
6	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	he					as emperor	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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