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Test 6 · ★ · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

Mei's grandfather calls Mao a hero; her grandmother remembers being sent to a village. Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandfather, grandmother · What happens: call, remember, send, be · To what, where: Mao, village · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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's grandfather calls Mao a hero; her grandmother remembers being sent to a village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandfather	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mei	case
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	nsubj
4	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mao	Mao	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 calls	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 remembers	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandmother	nmod:poss
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembers	nsubj
11	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calls	conj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sent	aux:pass
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 remembers	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Mei's grandfather	Mao					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent mao=Theme hero=Result
2	remember	present	Mao's grandmother						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	send	gerund · passive	Mao's grandmother not said here			a village			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to village=Destination

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: Who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only grandfather; grandmother forgot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 grandfather	advmod
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grandmother	compound
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 grandfather	punct
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	nsubj
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	grandfather grandmother						tree rules

Option 2

Only grandmother; Mao did nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 grandmother	advmod
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	Mao	Mao	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	grandmother	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both memories are real; Mao unified China and caused huge suffering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 memories	det
2	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 real	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 unified	punct
6	Mao	Mao	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 unified	nsubj
7	unified	unify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 unified	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 caused	cc
10	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unified	conj
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 suffering	amod
12	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both memories					real property	tree rules
2	unify	past	Mao	China					vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Patient
3	cause	past	Mao not said here	huge suffering					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition suffering=Patient

Option 4

Neither; Mao is a legend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 legend	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	Mao	Mao	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 legend	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legend	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 legend	det
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mao	a legend				neither property	tree rules

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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