Test 7 · ★ · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

a poster says «Great Leap Forward: fast progress!» what really happened

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poster, fast progress · What happens: say, happen · To what, where: Great Leap Forward · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poster	det
2	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Forward	punct
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Forward	amod
6	Leap	Leap	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Forward	compound
7	Forward	Forward	PROPN	_	3 says	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 progress	punct
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 progress	amod
10	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Forward	appos
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 progress	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 progress	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 happened	advmod
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 progress	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a poster	Great Leap Forward					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past	fast progress						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

China landed on the Moon and planted a flag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 planted	cc
7	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 landed	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flag	det
9	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 planted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	China			the Moon			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on moon=Destination
2	plant	past	China not said here	a flag					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient

Option 2

Nothing changed at all, it was just a poster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 changed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poster	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poster	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poster	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 poster	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 poster	det
10	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	participle				all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a poster					tree rules

Option 3

Everyone got rich and had loads to eat for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Everyone			rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	Everyone not said here	loads			tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	loads not said here		year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A famine in which tens of millions died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 famine	det
2	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tens	case
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 tens	det
5	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 famine	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 millions	case
7	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tens	nmod
8	died	die	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	die	past	a famine in which tens of millions						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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