Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / History / China: the Qing and the Opium Wars / t4

Test 4 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

The teacher says the Opium War was just «a trade war». What is fairer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, Opium War · What happens: say, be · To what, where: trade war · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: The teacher says the Opium War was just «a trade war».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 War	det
5	Opium	Opium	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 War	compound
6	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 war	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 war	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 war	advmod
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 war	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 war	det
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 war	compound
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 war	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	the Opium War	a trade war					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.

Sentence 2: What is fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fairer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairer	cop
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fairer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It was a friendly football match

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	6 match	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 match	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 match	amod
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	compound
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a friendly football match					tree rules

Option 2

It was about the price of tea cups

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	5 price	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 price	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 price	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 price	det
5	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cups	case
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cups	compound
8	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 price	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					about the price; of tea cups	tree rules

Option 3

China attacked London first, so Britain had to defend itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 attacked	nsubj
2	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 attacked	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 attacked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 attacked	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 defend	mark
10	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 defend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	China	London				first property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=Patient
2	have	past	Britain						tree rules
3	defend	to-infinitive	Britain not said here	itself = it					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was a war that protected the British opium trade

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 war	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 war	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 protected	nsubj
6	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 war	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trade	det
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trade	amod
9	opium	opium	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trade	compound
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 protected	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a war					tree rules
2	protect	past	a war	the British opium trade					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Beneficiary

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/t4/