--- title: «everyone in asia eats with chopsticks» says Mei. who'd correct her? — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics description: «everyone in asia eats with chopsticks» says Mei. who'd correct her? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 54 «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/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/) / [China: the Silk Road and the Tang](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang «everyone in asia eats with chopsticks» says Mei. who'd correct her? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, Mei · **What happens:** eat, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 54 «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t10:1 # text = «everyone in asia eats with chopsticks» says Mei. who'd correct her? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 asia asia NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 14 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | everyone | | | | | with chopsticks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mei | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nobody; she is right ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t10:o1:1 # text = Nobody; she is right 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | she | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} A penguin ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t10:o2:1 # text = A penguin 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 penguin penguin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A Roman ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t10:o3:1 # text = A Roman 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Someone from Thailand or India ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t10:o4:1 # text = Someone from Thailand or India 1 Someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Thailand Thailand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` 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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