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Test 6 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

Mei says Hong Kong was always Chinese. What fact must be added?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Hong · What happens: say, be, add · To what, where: fact · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 Hong Kong was always Chinese.

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	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Chinese	nsubj
4	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hong	flat
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Chinese	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 Chinese	advmod
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	.	.	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
2	is	past	Hong					always, chinese property	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 fact must be added?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 added	obj
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 added	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 added	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 added	aux:pass
5	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 added	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	must · passive		fact					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was never a city

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 city	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 city	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	It	a city					tree rules

Option 2

It was always Japanese

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 Japanese	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Japanese	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 Japanese	advmod
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					always, japanese property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was a British colony for over 150 years

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 colony	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 colony	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colony	det
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colony	amod
5	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 150	advmod
8	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colony	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a British colony			year		tree rules

Option 4

It was always British

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 British	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 British	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 British	advmod
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					always, british property	tree rules

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