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Test 2 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world. What fixes it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Kangxi · What happens: say, rule, fix · To what, where: world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world.

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	Kangxi	Kangxi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	nsubj
4	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 ruled	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 ruled	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anyone	nmod
11	.	.	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	rule	past	Kangxi					than anyone; long property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 fixes it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 fixes	nsubj
2	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixes	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fixes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present		world					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He ruled only ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ruled	nsubj
2	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 ten	advmod
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ruled	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	He				year		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Qianlong ruled 100 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Qianlong	Qianlong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ruled	nsubj
2	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ruled	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Qianlong				year		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Exactly right, nobody in any country ever ruled longer than him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 right	advmod
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ruled	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ruled	punct
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 ruled	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nobody	nmod
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 ruled	advmod
9	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 ruled	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	nobody				ever	long property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Longest in Chinese history; Louis XIV ruled 72 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 ruled	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 history	case
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 history	amod
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Longest	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 ruled	punct
6	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 XIV	compound
7	XIV	XIV	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ruled	nsubj
8	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	72	72	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruled	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Longest				year		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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