Exam question 1 · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

Identify the game recognised by FIFA as the earliest known form of football.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recognise, know, form · To what, where: game, football

This is exam question 1 of lesson 60 «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 game	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 FIFA	case
6	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 recognised	obl:agent
7	as	as	ADP	_	11 form	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 form	det
9	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 form	amod
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 form	amod
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recognised	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 football	case
13	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 form	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the game		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	recognise	participle		the game not said here	as the earliest known form of football	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as form=Attribute
3	know	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	form			football		nom form «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cuju, a kicking-ball game of ancient China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuju	Cuju	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 game	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
4	kicking	kicking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 kicking	punct
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 game	compound
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuju	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 China	case
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 China	amod
10	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 game	nmod

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

Option 2

Go, the game of stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 game	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stones	case
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 game	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	the game of stones					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Kung fu, the Shaolin art

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kung	kung	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fu	compound
2	fu	fu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 art	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 art	det
5	Shaolin	Shaolin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 art	compound
6	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fu	conj

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

Option 4

Xiangqi, the Chinese chess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Xiangqi	Xiangqi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chess	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chess	det
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chess	amod
5	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Xiangqi	appos

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

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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