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title: If you found a Ming bowl in Nan's attic, would it be worth millions? — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics
description: If you found a Ming bowl in Nan's attic, would it be worth millions? Test 7 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 7 · China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages

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If you found a Ming bowl in Nan's attic, would it be worth millions?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, bowl · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** Ming bowl, attic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t7:1
# text = If you found a Ming bowl in Nan's attic, would it be worth millions?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	attic	attic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
16	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | you | a Ming bowl |  | Nan's attic |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | would | bowl |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only if it is broken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t7:o1:1
# text = Only if it is broken
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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

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Probably not; only rare pieces are, many were made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t7:o2:1
# text = Probably not; only rare pieces are, many were made
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would be worthless whatever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t7:o3:1
# text = It would be worthless whatever
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | worthless *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, every Ming piece is priceless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, every Ming piece is priceless
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	priceless	priceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every Ming piece |  |  |  |  | priceless *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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