Test 4 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…

If officials were chosen only by birth, what would be lost?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birth · What happens: choose, lose · To what, where: officials

This is test 4 of lesson 9 «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 chosen	mark
2	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chosen	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chosen	aux:pass
4	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lost	advcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 birth	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 birth	case
7	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chosen	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chosen	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 lost	obj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	birth	officials					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	lose	would · passive							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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

Clever poor people could never get the job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	Clever poor people	the job					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody would be rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 rich	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Nobody					rich property	tree rules

Option 3

There would be no emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no emperor			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Exams would be much harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exams	exam	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 harder	advmod
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Exams	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Exams not said here					hard property	tree rules

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