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title: Why did American silver end up in China? — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did American silver end up in China? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

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Why did American silver end up in China?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** American silver · **What happens:** do, end up · **To what, where:** China

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t4:1
# text = Why did American silver end up in China?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | American silver |  |  |  |  | in China *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in china=Result |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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China wanted silver and sold silk, tea and porcelain for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t4:o1:1
# text = China wanted silver and sold silk, tea and porcelain for it
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | China | silver |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silver=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | past | China *not said here* | silk and tea and porcelain |  |  |  | for porcelain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent silk=Theme for it=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Chinese ships dug it up in Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t4:o2:1
# text = Chinese ships dug it up in Mexico
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | past | Chinese ships | it |  | Mexico |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mexico=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Silver floated across the Pacific on the strong ocean currents to China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t4:o3:1
# text = Silver floated across the Pacific on the strong ocean currents to China
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle | Silver |  |  | the Pacific |  | on the strong ocean currents to China | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme across pacific=Source on current=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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China owned the silver mines in Bolivia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t4:o4:1
# text = China owned the silver mines in Bolivia
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | China | the silver mines |  | Bolivia |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mine=Theme |

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**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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