Test 3 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

shut up mei, italy made ice cream. who's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mei · What happens: shut up, make, be · To what, where: mei, ice cream

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 shut	compound:prt
3	mei	mei	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shut	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
5	italy	italy	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mei	acl
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cream	compound
8	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 right	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shut	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up	imperative	you not said here	mei		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mei=Patient
2	make	participle	mei not said here	ice cream	italy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cream=Product
3	is	present			right property	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 right answer

Neither alone; ice cream has several early homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 has	advmod
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Neither	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cream	compound
5	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 homes	amod
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 homes	amod
9	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	ice cream	several early homes				neither property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

Option 2

Only China, proven, Marco Polo said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 proven	advmod
2	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 proven	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 proven	punct
4	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 proven	punct
6	Marco	Marco	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
7	Polo	Polo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Marco	flat
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	8 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	participle	China						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Marco						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 3

Only Italy, proven, it's in all the books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Italy	advmod
2	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 proven	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Italy	punct
4	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 books	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 books	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 books	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 books	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 books	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 books	det
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 proven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	participle · passive		Italy					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	it			all books			tree rules

Option 4

Nobody, ice cream was invented in America in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 cream	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cream	compound
4	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 invented	aux:pass
6	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 America	case
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 2000	case
10	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Nobody ice cream		America		in 2000	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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