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title: Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world. What fixes it? — China: the Qing and the Opium Wars · tree and pragmatics
description: Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world. What fixes it? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 57 «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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 2 · ★ · China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

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Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world. What fixes it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mei, Kangxi · **What happens:** say, rule, fix · **To what, where:** world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 57 «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars:t2:1
# text = Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world.
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	Kangxi	Kangxi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 | **rule** | past | Kangxi |  |  |  |  | than anyone; long *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 fixes it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars:t2:2
# text = What fixes it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | present |  | world |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He ruled only ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars:t2:o1:1
# text = He ruled only ten years
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | He |  |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Qianlong ruled 100 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars:t2:o2:1
# text = Qianlong ruled 100 years
1	Qianlong	Qianlong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Qianlong |  |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Exactly right, nobody in any country ever ruled longer than him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars:t2:o3:1
# text = Exactly right, nobody in any country ever ruled longer than him
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | nobody |  |  |  | ever | long *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Longest in Chinese history; Louis XIV ruled 72 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars:t2:o4:1
# text = Longest in Chinese history; Louis XIV ruled 72 years
1	Longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	XIV	XIV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Longest |  |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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