--- title: Identify the period during which the voyages commanded by Zheng He w… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the period during which the voyages commanded by Zheng He were undertaken. Exam question 1 of lesson 56 «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» 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 wron --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/e1/) [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 Ming and Zheng He's voyages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages Identify the period during which the voyages commanded by Zheng He were undertaken. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Zheng · **What happens:** identify, command, be · **To what, where:** period, voyages, Zheng · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:e1:1 # text = Identify the period during which the voyages commanded by Zheng He were undertaken. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 during during ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 7 det _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 voyages voyage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 8 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Zheng Zheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl:agent _ _ 11 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 undertaken undertaken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the period | | | | which voyages *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme | | 2 | **command** | participle | | which voyages *not said here* | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | Zheng | Zheng *not said here* | | | | undertaken *property* | tree rules | 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} From 1839 to 1842 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:e1:o1:1 # text = From 1839 to 1842 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1839 1839 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1842 1842 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} From 221 to 206 BC ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:e1:o2:1 # text = From 221 to 206 BC 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 221 221 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 206 206 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} From 1405 to 1433 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:e1:o3:1 # text = From 1405 to 1433 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1405 1405 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1433 1433 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} From 1492 to 1504 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:e1:o4:1 # text = From 1492 to 1504 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1492 1492 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1504 1504 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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