Test 5 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…

Why do most Chinese people call themselves the Han people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: most Chinese people · What happens: call · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 call	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 people	amod
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 call	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 people	compound
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	most Chinese people	people					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient

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 Han were the first farmers by the Yellow River

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Han	det
2	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 farmers	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 farmers	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmers	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 farmers	amod
6	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 River	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 River	det
9	Yellow	Yellow	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 River	compound
10	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 farmers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Han	the first farmers				by the Yellow River	tree rules

Option 2

Because of a famous film about a hero called Han

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 film	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Because	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 hero	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 film	nmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hero	acl
10	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a hero not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Han means "the people of the wall" in Chinese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Chinese	case
11	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Han	the people of the wall				in Chinese	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot people=Theme in chinese=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Han dynasty was so long and important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dynasty	det
2	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 important	cc
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Han dynasty					long property	tree rules
2	be		the Han dynasty not said here						tree rules

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