Test 8 · ★ · China: 1911, 1949 and Mao

Why can a policy's name be misleading?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, policy · What happens: be, name

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 misleading	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 misleading	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 policy	det
4	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 policy	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 misleading	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 misleading	cop
8	misleading	misleading	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 misleading	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	a policy's name					misleading property	tree rules
2	name		a policy						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Policies have no names, only long numbers and dates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Policies	policy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 numbers	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 numbers	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 numbers	amod
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 names	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dates	cc
10	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 numbers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Policies	no names long numbers and dates					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Names are always lies chosen to fool everybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 always	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 always	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 lies	advmod
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lies	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fool	mark
7	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chosen	advcl
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Names		always property	tree rules
2	lie	present				tree rules
3	choose	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fool	to-infinitive		everybody		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A name says what was hoped, not what happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hoped	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hoped	aux:pass
6	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happened	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 what	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a name	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hope	past · passive		tree rules
3	happen	past		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Names are chosen by children in a school contest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chosen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chosen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 contest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 contest	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contest	compound
9	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present · passive	children	Names		a school contest			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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