--- title: Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese. Could she? — How empires fell: the map of the 20th… · tree and pragmatics description: Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese. Could she? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [How empires fell: the map of the 20th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese. Could she? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandma, Macau · **What happens:** say, remember, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t7:1 # text = Your grandma says she remembers when Macau was Portuguese. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 7 Macau Macau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 Portuguese portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your grandma | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **remember** | present | grandma | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | Macau | | | | | portuguese *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. *Sentence 2:* Could she? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t7:2 # text = Could she? 1 Could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 aux _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} No, it was handed back to China in 1550 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t7:o1:1 # text = No, it was handed back to China in 1550 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1550 1550 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hand back** | past · passive | | it | China | 1550 | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to china=Destination | ### Option 2 {#o2} No, Macau was never Portuguese at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t7:o2:1 # text = No, Macau was never Portuguese at all 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Macau Macau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 Portuguese portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | Macau | | | all | | portuguese *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yes, Portugal handed it back only in 1999 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t7:o3:1 # text = Yes, Portugal handed it back only in 1999 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1999 1999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hand back** | past | Portugal | it | | 1999 | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, but only in the 1800s ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t7:o4:1 # text = Yes, but only in the 1800s 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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