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title: What would we need to prove the Xia dynasty for sure? — China: five thousand years and the old… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would we need to prove the Xia dynasty for sure? Test 11 of lesson 51 «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties

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What would we need to prove the Xia dynasty for sure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** need, prove · **To what, where:** Xia dynasty

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This is test 11 of lesson 51 «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» 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/51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties:t11:1
# text = What would we need to prove the Xia dynasty for sure?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Xia	Xia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the Xia dynasty |  |  |  | for sure | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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A vote by schoolchildren

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties:t11:o1:1
# text = A vote by schoolchildren
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	schoolchildren	schoolchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** |  | schoolchildren |  |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act transitive»: by=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Writing from Xia times that names it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties:t11:o2:1
# text = Writing from Xia times that names it
1	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Xia	Xia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **name** | present | Xia times | it |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bigger museum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties:t11:o3:1
# text = A bigger museum
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A film about the Xia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties:t11:o4:1
# text = A film about the Xia
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Xia	Xia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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