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title: Why might Britain have copied China's idea of exams for officials? — China: the First Emperor, the Terracot… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might Britain have copied China's idea of exams for officials? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 52 «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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
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# Test 10 · ★ · China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Grea…

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Why might Britain have copied China's idea of exams for officials?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** copy · **To what, where:** idea

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 52 «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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/52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall:t10:1
# text = Why might Britain have copied China's idea of exams for officials?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	copied	copy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	exams	exam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | might · perfect | Britain | China's idea of exams for officials |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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Because exams are fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall:t10:o1:1
# text = Because exams are fun
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	exams	exam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | exams |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To build a wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall:t10:o2:1
# text = To build a wall
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | a wall |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To sell more tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall:t10:o3:1
# text = To sell more tea
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | more tea |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To choose officials by learning, not only by birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall:t10:o4:1
# text = To choose officials by learning, not only by birth
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | to-infinitive |  | officials |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent official=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by birth | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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