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Test 7 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

The teacher had never heard of the Taiping Rebellion. Mei says «it was small». Both?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Mei · What happens: not hear, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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 had never heard of the Taiping Rebellion.

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	5 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Rebellion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rebellion	det
8	Taiping	Taiping	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Rebellion	compound
9	Rebellion	Rebellion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect	the teacher					of the Taiping Rebellion	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of rebellion=Stimulus

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: Mei says «it was small».

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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 small	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct
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 in a quote	past	teacher					small property	tree rules

Sentence 3: Both?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It was huge, one of the deadliest wars in history

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	3 huge	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 huge	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 wars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wars	det
8	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 wars	amod
9	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 history	case
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wars	nmod

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

Option 2

It never happened

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	3 happened	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	past	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was small, just a fight between two villages

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	3 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fight	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 fight	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 small	obl
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 villages	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 villages	nummod
10	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					a fight between two villages obl; small property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It lasted one week

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	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 week	nummod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				week		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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