Test 4 · ★★ · China: modern China, space and contested topics

OMG mei says the chinese rover found aliens on mars!!

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mei, chinese rover · What happens: say, find · To what, where: aliens, mars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	OMG	omg	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
2	mei	mei	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rover	det
5	chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rover	amod
6	rover	rover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	aliens	alien	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 mars	case
10	mars	mar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
11	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 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	find	past	the chinese rover	aliens		mars			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alien=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, but they ran away before it took a photo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 took	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 photo	det
11	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	they					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	it	a photo					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No; it found signs of ancient water, which is not life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 found	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 life	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 life	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 life	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 life	advmod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	past	it	signs of ancient water and life	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic
2	not is a	present	ancient water and life	life	tree rules
3	sign			ancient water and life	nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

No, coz the rover crashed and never landed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 crashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crashed	punct
3	coz	because	SCONJ	_	6 crashed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rover	det
5	rover	rover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crashed	nsubj
6	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 landed	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 landed	advmod
9	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crashed	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past	the rover						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not land	past	the rover not said here			all			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yes!! little green men waved at the camera lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 waved	discourse
2	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	6 waved	punct
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waved	nsubj
6	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 camera	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 camera	det
9	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waved	obl
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 waved	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	little green men			the camera			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at camera=Location

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