Test 5 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

If China had not destroyed the opium in 1839, what problem would have gone on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: China, problem · What happens: not destroy, go on · To what, where: opium, 1839

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 destroyed	mark
2	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 destroyed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destroyed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 destroyed	advmod
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 gone	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 opium	det
7	opium	opium	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 destroyed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1839	case
9	1839	1839	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 destroyed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 gone	obj
12	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gone	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 gone	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not destroy a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	China	the opium		1839			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opium=Patient
2	go on	would · perfect	problem						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

Silk would have run out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	would · perfect · passive		Silk					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

British opium still flooding in and harming people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opium	amod
2	opium	opium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flooding	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 flooding	advmod
4	flooding	flood	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 flooding	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 harming	cc
7	harming	harm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flooding	conj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	gerund	British opium				still		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	harm	gerund	British opium not said here	people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 4

The Great Wall would have fallen down from neglect and old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wall	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Wall	amod
3	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 fallen	compound:prt
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 neglect	case
9	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 age	cc
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 age	amod
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neglect	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	would · perfect	the Great Wall			neglect and old age			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from neglect=Initial_Location

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