--- title: Mei claims China invented chess. What should she proudly claim inste… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics description: Mei claims China invented chess. What should she proudly claim instead? Test 11 · ★ 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/t11/) [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/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang Mei claims China invented chess. What should she proudly claim instead? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mei, China · **What happens:** claim, invent · **To what, where:** chess · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mei claims China invented chess. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t11:1 # text = Mei claims China invented chess. 1 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 claims claim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Mei | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **invent** | past | China | chess | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Result | 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 should she proudly claim instead? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t11:2 # text = What should she proudly claim instead? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 proudly proudly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 6 instead instead ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | should | China | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Football ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t11:o1:1 # text = Football 1 Football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Cards ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t11:o2:1 # text = Cards 1 Cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Go, which is clearly Chinese ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t11:o3:1 # text = Go, which is clearly Chinese 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | chinese, clearly *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Snakes and ladders ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t11:o4:1 # text = Snakes and ladders 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 ladders ladder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 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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