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title: Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle. What would the teacher list? — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle. What would the teacher list? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 55 «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 6 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

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Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle. What would the teacher list?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mei, Mongols · **What happens:** say, not lose · **To what, where:** battle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 55 «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t6:1
# text = Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle.
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 | **not** **lose** | past | the Mongols | a battle |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |

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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 the teacher list?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t6:2
# text = What would the teacher list?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Japan in 1274 and 1281, Ain Jalut and Vietnam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t6:o1:1
# text = Japan in 1274 and 1281, Ain Jalut and Vietnam
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1274	1274	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	1281	1281	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ain	Ain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	Jalut	Jalut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only the Great Wall, where the Ming stopped them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t6:o2:1
# text = Only the Great Wall, where the Ming stopped them
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Wall	Wall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the Great Wall | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only Waterloo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t6:o3:1
# text = Only Waterloo
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Waterloo	Waterloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing; she is right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t6:o4:1
# text = Nothing; she is right
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	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	_	_
```

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

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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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