Test 8 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…

How is a dynasty like a family business?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dynasty · What happens: be

This is test 8 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dynasty	det
4	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 business	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 business	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 business	compound
8	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dynasty	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a dynasty like a family business					how property	tree rules

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

Everyone votes for the boss each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 votes	nsubj
2	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 boss	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 votes	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 votes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	present	Everyone				year	for the boss goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for boss=Goal

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It always ends after one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ends	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 ends	advmod
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 year	nummod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	It				year	always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

It has no leader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 leader	det
4	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no leader					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Power is handed from parent to child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 handed	aux:pass
3	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 parent	case
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 child	case
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	present · passive		Power	child			from parent	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from parent=Initial_Location to child=Destination

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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