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Test 11 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

Mei says Chinese medicine cures everything; the teacher says «not science». What did Tu Youyou show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, Chinese medicine, teacher · What happens: say, cure, do · To what, where: everything, science, Tu show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: Mei says Chinese medicine cures everything; the teacher says «not science».

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	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 medicine	amod
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cures	nsubj
5	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 cures	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 science	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 science	advmod
13	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 science	punct
15	.	.	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	cure	present	Chinese medicine	everything					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer everything=Source
3	say speech: assert	present	the teacher	science					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent science=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.

Sentence 2: What did Tu Youyou show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tu	Tu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 show	compound
4	Youyou	Youyou	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tu	flat
5	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Tu show					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

No old remedy can ever work, so throw them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 remedy	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remedy	amod
3	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 throw	advmod
9	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 work	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 throw	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 throw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	can	no old remedy				ever		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw out	infinitive	no old remedy not said here	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Every old remedy works, so no tests are needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 remedy	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remedy	amod
3	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needed	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 needed	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 tests	det
8	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 needed	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 needed	aux:pass
10	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 works	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	every old remedy						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	present · passive		no tests					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Tests are not needed if a remedy is very old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 needed	advmod
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 remedy	det
7	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 needed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		Tests					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	a remedy					old property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Test old remedies; keep the ones that work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remedies	amod
3	remedies	remedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Test	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Test	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 work	nsubj
9	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	imperative	you not said here	old remedies					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	the ones					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	work	present	the ones						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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