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Test 10 · ★ · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

Mei says Deng made everyone rich. What fixes it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, Deng · What happens: say, make, fix · To what, where: everyone, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 58 «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» 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 Deng made everyone rich.

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	Deng	Deng	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 made	obj
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	.	.	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 clause=Topic
2	make	past	Deng	everyone				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Product

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 fixes it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 fixes	nsubj
2	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixes	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fixes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present		it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Correct, there are no poor people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 are	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Correct	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 people	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no poor people			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hundreds of millions left poverty, but not everyone got rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 millions	case
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 millions	acl
5	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 everyone	advmod
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle	millions not said here	poverty					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Theme
2	get	past	Hundreds of millions					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Deng made everyone poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deng	Deng	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 made	obj
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Deng	everyone				poor property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Product

Option 4

Deng never did any reforms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deng	Deng	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 reforms	det
5	reforms	reform	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	Deng	any reforms					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Eventuality

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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