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Test 4 · ★ · Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks a…

Mei says pots came after farming. What did finds in China and Japan show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mei, pots, China · What happens: say, come, find, show · To what, where: show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 62 «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 pots came after farming.

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	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 farming	case
6	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	.	.	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	come	past	pots				after farming		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 did finds in China and Japan show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 finds	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	aux
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 China	case
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 show	nmod:poss
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Japan	cc
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 China	conj
8	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support		China and Japan's show					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme show=Attribute
2	show		China and Japan						nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

Pots were never made in Asia before 1500

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Asia	case
6	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 1500	case
8	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	past · passive		Pots		Asia	before 1500		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Pots came to Asia from Rome much later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Asia	case
4	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 later	advmod
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Pots		Asia	Rome		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to asia=Initial_Location from rome=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hunters and gatherers made pots first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gatherers	cc
3	gatherers	gatherer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunters	conj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Hunters and gatherers	pots				first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pot=Product

Option 4

Pots came only with the first big cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 cities	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cities	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 cities	amod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cities	amod
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Pots					with the first big cities	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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