Test 12 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

Danylo and Mei both say their country is the oldest and greatest. What did the course teach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, country · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: course teach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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: Danylo and Mei both say their country is the oldest and greatest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Mei	cc
3	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Danylo	conj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 country	nmod:poss
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 oldest	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 oldest	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oldest	det
10	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 say	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 greatest	cc
12	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 oldest	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Danylo and Mei	both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Danylo's country	old property	tree rules
3	be		Danylo's country not said here		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.

Sentence 2: What did the course teach?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teach	det
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teach	compound
5	teach	teach	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		the course teach					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teach=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only one of them can be right, so they must fight it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 right	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 right	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fight	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 fight	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fight	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fight	aux
12	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 right	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fight	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 fight	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	one of them					right property	tree rules
2	fight out	must	they	it					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 2

History is just opinion, so any claim is as good as another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	History	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opinion	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 opinion	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 opinion	advmod
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 claim	det
8	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 good	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 good	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 opinion	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	History	opinion					tree rules
2	is	present	any claim					as another; good property	tree rules

Option 3

Nobody should ever be proud of their country's history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 proud	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 proud	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 proud	cop
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 history	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 country	nmod:poss
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 history	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 country	case
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	Nobody				ever	of their country's history; proud property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pride and truth can live together when sources are checked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 truth	cc
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pride	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 live	aux
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 checked	advmod
8	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 checked	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 checked	aux:pass
10	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 live	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	can	Pride and truth					together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check	present · passive		sources					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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