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description: What would happen if a printer tried to make movable type for all Chinese characters? Test 7 of lesson 53 «China: the four great inventions» 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.
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# Test 7 · China: the four great inventions

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What would happen if a printer tried to make movable type for all Chinese characters?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** printer · **What happens:** happen, try, make · **To what, where:** movable type

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This is test 7 of lesson 53 «China: the four great inventions» 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/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:53-china-the-four-great-inventions:t7:1
# text = What would happen if a printer tried to make movable type for all Chinese characters?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	printer	printer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	movable	movable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a printer |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a printer *not said here* | movable type |  |  |  | for all Chinese characters | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent type=Product for character=Asset |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He would need only 10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:53-china-the-four-great-inventions:t7:o1:1
# text = He would need only 10
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | He | 10 |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 10=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He would need none

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:53-china-the-four-great-inventions:t7:o2:1
# text = He would need none
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | He | none |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot none=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He would need only 26

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:53-china-the-four-great-inventions:t7:o3:1
# text = He would need only 26
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | He | 26 |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 26=Theme |

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

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He would need thousands of different pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:53-china-the-four-great-inventions:t7:o4:1
# text = He would need thousands of different pieces
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | He | thousands of different pieces |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thousand=Theme |

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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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