Test 10 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China
A video game shows a Chinese dragon burning a village. What is unusual about that?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video game, Chinese dragon · What happens: show, burn, be · To what, where: Chinese dragon, village
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» 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: A video game shows a Chinese dragon burning a village.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 2 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 game | compound |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 dragon | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a video game | a Chinese dragon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dragon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | a Chinese dragon not said here | a village | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent village=Theme |
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: What is unusual about that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 unusual | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unusual | cop |
| 3 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 unusual | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 unusual | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about that; unusual property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
There are no Chinese dragons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 dragons | det |
| 4 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dragons | amod |
| 5 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | no Chinese dragons | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Chinese dragons cannot move
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dragons | amod |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | can | Chinese dragons | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Chinese dragons usually bring rain and luck, not ruin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dragons | amod |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 luck | cc |
| 7 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rain | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ruin | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 ruin | advmod |
| 10 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Chinese dragons | rain and luck | usually property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | |||
| 2 | not ruin | infinitive | Chinese dragons not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing; Chinese dragons are always villains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 dragons | compound |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dragons | amod |
| 4 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 villains | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 villains | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 villains | advmod |
| 7 | villains | villain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing Chinese dragons | villains | always property | tree rules |
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