Test 7 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…

Why would the First Emperor want an army of clay soldiers in his tomb?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: First Emperor · What happens: want · To what, where: army, tomb

This is test 7 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 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Emperor	det
4	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 Emperor	amod
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 army	det
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 soldiers	case
10	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soldiers	compound
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 army	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tomb	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tomb	nmod:poss
14	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	the First Emperor	a army of clay soldiers		Emperor's tomb			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot army=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

To guard him in the afterlife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 guard	mark
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guard	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 afterlife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 afterlife	det
6	afterlife	afterlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive			him = he	the afterlife			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

To play games with in the dark at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 play	mark
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 dark	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	to-infinitive		games			night	with the dark	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with dark=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To scare away farmers who came to dig there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 farmers	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dig	mark
8	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 dig	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	scare away	to-infinitive		farmers		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus farmer=Experiencer
2	come	past	farmers			tree rules
3	dig	to-infinitive	farmers not said here		there	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To sell to traders on the Silk Road after he died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 traders	case
4	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sell	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 Road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Road	det
7	Silk	Silk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Road	compound
8	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 traders	nmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive			traders on the Silk Road				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to trader=Recipient
2	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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