Exam question 1 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…
Identify the ruler who, in the year 221 before the common era, unified the warring kingdoms and assumed the title of First Emperor.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, unify, assume, title · To what, where: ruler, warring kingdoms, title, First Emperor
This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ruler | det |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 year | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 9 | 221 | 221 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 year | flat |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 era | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 era | det |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 era | amod |
| 13 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unified | punct |
| 15 | unified | unify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kingdoms | det |
| 17 | warring | warring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kingdoms | amod |
| 18 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unified | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 assumed | cc |
| 20 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unified | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 title | det |
| 22 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assumed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Emperor | case |
| 24 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 Emperor | amod |
| 25 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 title | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the ruler | before the common era; year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | unify | past | the warring kingdoms | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | |||||
| 3 | assume | past | the title of First Emperor | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme | |||||
| 4 | title | First Emperor | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
Kublai Khan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kublai | Kublai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kublai | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Zheng He
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Zheng | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Confucius
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Confucius | Confucius | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Qin Shi Huang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qin | Qin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Qin | flat |
| 3 | Huang | Huang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Qin | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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