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title: Mei says only silk went west. What would she find in the merchants'… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics
description: Mei says only silk went west. What would she find in the merchants' bags? Test 2 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

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Mei says only silk went west. What would she find in the merchants' bags?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mei, silk · **What happens:** say, go, find · **To what, where:** bags · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mei says only silk went west.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t2:1
# text = Mei says only silk went west.
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	west	west	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mei |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | silk |  |  |  |  | west *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would she find in the merchants' bags?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t2:2
# text = What would she find in the merchants' bags?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | silk |  |  | the merchants's bags |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Paper, porcelain and tea too, and goods coming back east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t2:o1:1
# text = Paper, porcelain and tea too, and goods coming back east
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	conj	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	east	east	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | gerund | goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | east *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only pandas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t2:o2:1
# text = Only pandas
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t2:o3:1
# text = Only gold
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only silk, nothing else at all, packed in bales on the camels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang:t2:o4:1
# text = Only silk, nothing else at all, packed in bales on the camels
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	conj	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | participle | silk |  |  | bales |  | on the camels | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bale=Destination |

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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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