Test 11 · ★ · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

Could a game of table tennis alone make two countries friends?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game · What happens: make · To what, where: two countries

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 game	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tennis	case
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tennis	compound
6	tennis	tennis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 game	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 countries	nummod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a game of table tennis	two countries					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset country=Beneficiary friend=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the winner gets to choose which country is its friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winner	det
4	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 friend	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 choose	mark
7	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gets	xcomp
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 choose	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 friend	cop
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	present	the winner		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	choose	to-infinitive	the winner not said here	which country	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
3	is a	present		winner's friend	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, America lost on purpose so China would be happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 happy	mark
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 happy	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happy	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 happy	cop
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle	America			purpose			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	China					happy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No; it was a sign, politics did the real work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sign	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sign	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sign	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct
8	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 work	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 work	amod
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a sign					tree rules
2	do	past	politics	the real work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 4

No, because the game never happened at all in 1971

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 happened	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 happened	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happened	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 happened	advmod
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 happened	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1971	case
11	1971	1971	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	past	the game			all		in 1971	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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