Test 7 · ★★ · China: modern China, space and contested topics

If someone says «Tibet was always part of China» and another says «Tibet was always free», what is the fair reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, Tibet, another · What happens: say, be · To what, where: part, fair reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 says	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
5	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 part	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 part	advmod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 China	case
10	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
13	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 free	punct
16	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 free	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 free	cop
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 free	advmod
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	ccomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 free	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reply	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 reply	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 reply	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 reply	det
25	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reply	amod
26	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 free	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Tibet	part	of China; always property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	another			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	Tibet		always, free property	tree rules
5	is a	present		the fair reply		tree rules

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

The second is a plain fact that every historian agrees with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 second	det
2	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fact	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fact	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fact	det
5	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fact	amod
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 agrees	mark
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 historian	det
9	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 agrees	nsubj
10	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fact	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	10 agrees	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the second	a plain fact					tree rules
2	agree with speech: agree	present	every historian						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Neither matters, because nobody lived in Tibet before 1950

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 lived	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Tibet	case
8	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 1950	case
10	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Neither						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	live	past	nobody			Tibet	before 1950		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tibet=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both are positions; it is contested and history was complicated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 positions	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 positions	cop
3	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 complicated	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 contested	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 contested	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 contested	aux:pass
7	contested	contest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 positions	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 history	cc
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contested	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 complicated	cop
11	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		both positions		tree rules
2	contest	present · passive		it		tree rules
3	is	past	both positions		complicated property	tree rules

Option 4

The first is a plain fact that every historian in the world agrees with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 fact	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fact	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fact	det
5	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fact	amod
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 agrees	mark
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 historian	det
9	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agrees	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 historian	nmod
13	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fact	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	13 agrees	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the first	a plain fact					tree rules
2	agree with speech: agree	present	every historian in the world						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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