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description: A video game shows a Chinese dragon burning a village. What is unusual about that? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» 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 
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

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A video game shows a Chinese dragon burning a village. What is unusual about that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** video game, Chinese dragon · **What happens:** show, burn, be · **To what, where:** Chinese dragon, village

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» 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/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A video game shows a Chinese dragon burning a village.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t10:1
# text = A video game shows a Chinese dragon burning a village.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a video game |  | a Chinese dragon |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dragon=Recipient |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | a Chinese dragon *not said here* | a village |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent village=Theme |

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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 is unusual about that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t10:2
# text = What is unusual about that?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about that; unusual *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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There are no Chinese dragons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t10:o1:1
# text = There are no Chinese dragons
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no Chinese dragons |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Chinese dragons cannot move

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t10:o2:1
# text = Chinese dragons cannot move
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | can | Chinese dragons |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Chinese dragons usually bring rain and luck, not ruin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t10:o3:1
# text = Chinese dragons usually bring rain and luck, not ruin
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Chinese dragons | rain and luck |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **ruin** | infinitive | Chinese dragons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Nothing; Chinese dragons are always villains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t10:o4:1
# text = Nothing; Chinese dragons are always villains
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	villains	villain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing Chinese dragons | villains |  |  |  | always *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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