Exam question 2 · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the forces that resisted the Japanese invasion of China.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, forces · What happens: select, establish, concern, resist, invade · To what, where: response, forces, Japanese invasion, China

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forces	det
11	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 resisted	nsubj
13	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forces	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 invasion	det
15	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 invasion	amod
16	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 resisted	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 China	case
18	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 invasion	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the forces		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus force=Experiencer
4	resist	past	the forces	the Japanese invasion of China		tree rules
5	invade			China		nom invasion «act 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

The Communists exclusively, without any Nationalist participation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Communists	det
2	Communists	Communist	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 Communists	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 participation	punct
5	without	without	ADP	_	8 participation	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 participation	det
7	Nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 participation	amod
8	participation	participation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Communists	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both the Nationalists and the Communists, the former in most major battles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	3 Nationalists	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nationalists	det
3	Nationalists	Nationalist	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 former	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Communists	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Communists	det
6	Communists	Communist	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Nationalists	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 former	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 former	det
9	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 battles	case
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 battles	amod
12	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 battles	amod
13	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 former	obl

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

Option 3

The warlords exclusively, under Puyi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 warlords	det
2	warlords	warlord	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 warlords	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 warlords	punct
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 Puyi	case
6	Puyi	Puyi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 warlords	nmod

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

Option 4

No Chinese forces whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 forces	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forces	amod
3	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 forces	advmod

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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