--- title: An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else. What? — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R… · tree and pragmatics description: An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else. What? Test 10 · ★★ 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's choice was wrong --- [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/t10/) [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/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else. What? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** alchemist · **What happens:** want, live, find · **To what, where:** something This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t10:1 # text = An alchemist wanted to live for ever and found something else. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 alchemist alchemist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 else else ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | a alchemist | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a alchemist *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | a alchemist *not said here* | something | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | 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:* What? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t10:2 # text = What? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Paper ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t10:o1:1 # text = Paper 1 Paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Chocolate ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t10:o2:1 # text = Chocolate 1 Chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Gunpowder ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t10:o3:1 # text = Gunpowder 1 Gunpowder gunpowder NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Silk ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t10:o4:1 # text = Silk 1 Silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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