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title: Mei: «Africa sent a dragon to China!» What really arrived? — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics
description: Mei: «Africa sent a dragon to China!» What really arrived? Test 5 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

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Mei: «Africa sent a dragon to China!» What really arrived?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Africa · **What happens:** send, arrive · **To what, where:** Mei, China

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This is test 5 of lesson 56 «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» 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/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mei: «Africa sent a dragon to China!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t5:1
# text = Mei: «Africa sent a dragon to China!»
1	Mei	Mei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | past | Africa | Mei | China |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme to china=Destination |

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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 really arrived?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t5:2
# text = What really arrived?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t5:o1:1
# text = A lion
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A giraffe the court took for a qilin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t5:o2:1
# text = A giraffe the court took for a qilin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	qilin	qilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a giraffe |  |  |  |  | for a qilin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for qilin=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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An elephant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t5:o3:1
# text = An elephant
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	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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A real dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t5:o4:1
# text = A real dragon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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