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Test 4 · ★ · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

The teacher says China and Japan still argue about the war. About what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, China · What happens: say, argue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: The teacher says China and Japan still argue about the war.

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	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 argue	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Japan	cc
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 China	conj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 argue	advmod
8	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 war	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 war	det
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 argue	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	argue speech: disagree	present	China and Japan				still	about the war	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about war=Topic

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: About what?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Who won the 1894 football match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 match	det
4	1894	1894	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 football	nummod
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	compound
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past		the football match					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality

Option 2

Where the Great Wall ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 ends	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wall	det
3	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wall	amod
4	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ends	nsubj
5	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	the Great Wall						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Who invented paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 invented	nsubj
2	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past		paper					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

How to remember and teach it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 remember	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 remember	mark
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 teach	cc
5	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	to-infinitive							vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	teach speech: other	infinitive			it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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