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Test 10 · ★★ · China: modern China, space and contested topics

Mei says the Hong Kong protests were caused by foreigners. How should a teacher answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mei, foreigners · What happens: say, cause · To what, where: Hong protests · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 59 «China: modern China, space and contested topics» 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 says the Hong Kong protests were caused by foreigners.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protests	det
4	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 protests	compound
5	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hong	flat
6	protests	protest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 caused	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 caused	aux:pass
8	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 foreigners	case
10	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 caused	obl:agent
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cause	past · passive	foreigners	the Hong protests					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

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: How should a teacher answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	compound
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Describe the events, the bill and the law, and say views divide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 events	det
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Describe	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bill	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bill	det
6	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 events	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 law	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 law	det
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bill	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Describe	conj
13	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 divide	nsubj
14	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the events and the bill and the law					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	divide	present	views						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Refuse to say that anything happened in Hong Kong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 say	mark
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refuse	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 happened	mark
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Hong	case
8	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
9	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Hong	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past	anything			Hong			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hong=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Agree with Mei completely and say nothing more about it in class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 Mei	case
3	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Agree	obl
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	1 Agree	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Agree	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	obj
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nothing	amod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 more	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 class	case
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here					with Mei; completely property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with mei=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	nothing		class			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme in class=Manner

Option 4

Say Mei is a liar in front of the whole class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 liar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 liar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 liar	det
5	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liar	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 class	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 class	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 class	amod
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Mei	a liar		front of the whole class			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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