Exam question 1 · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao
Identify the date and the person associated with the proclamation of the People's Republic of China.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, associate, proclaim · To what, where: date, person, Republic
This is exam question 1 of lesson 58 «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 date | det |
| 3 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 person | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 date | conj |
| 7 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 person | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 proclamation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 proclamation | det |
| 10 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 associated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Republic | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 People | det |
| 13 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 People | case |
| 15 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 proclamation | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 China | case |
| 17 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Republic | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the date and the person | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme | ||||
| 2 | associate | participle | the person not said here | with the proclamation of the People's Republic of China | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with proclamation=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | proclaim | the People's Republic of China | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
10 October 1911, Sun Yat-sen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 October | nummod |
| 2 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 1911 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1911 | punct |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 1911 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | Yat | Yat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sen | punct |
| 8 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1978, Deng Xiaoping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Xiaoping | punct |
| 3 | Deng | Deng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Xiaoping | compound |
| 4 | Xiaoping | Xiaoping | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 1978 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4 May 1919, Chiang Kai-shek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 May | nummod |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 1919 | 1919 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chiang | punct |
| 5 | Chiang | Chiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 May | conj |
| 6 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chiang | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 shek | punct |
| 8 | shek | shek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Chiang | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
1 October 1949, Mao Zedong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 October | nummod |
| 2 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 1949 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1949 | punct |
| 5 | Mao | Mao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Zedong | compound |
| 6 | Zedong | Zedong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 1949 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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