--- title: Identify the official of the Han court credited with the improvement… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the official of the Han court credited with the improvement of papermaking. Exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/e1/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius Identify the official of the Han court credited with the improvement of papermaking. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, official, papermaking · **What happens:** identify, credit, improve · **To what, where:** official This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:e1:1 # text = Identify the official of the Han court credited with the improvement of papermaking. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 official official NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Han Han PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 credited credit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 improvement improvement NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 papermaking papermaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the official | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent official=Theme | | 2 | **credit** | past | the official *not said here* | | | | | of the Han court; with the improvement of papermaking | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with improvement=Theme | | 3 | **improve** | | papermaking | | | | | | nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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} Cai Lun ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:e1:o1:1 # text = Cai Lun 1 Cai Cai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Lun Lun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Bi Sheng ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:e1:o2:1 # text = Bi Sheng 1 Bi Bi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Sheng Sheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Qin Shi Huang ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:e1:o3:1 # text = Qin Shi Huang 1 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Shi Shi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Huang Huang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Zheng He ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:e1:o4:1 # text = Zheng He 1 Zheng Zheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 flat _ _ ``` 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R…, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/t11/) - next →: [Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/e2/) - ↑ back to [Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/)