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title: shut up mei, italy made ice cream. who's right? — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyda… · tree and pragmatics
description: shut up mei, italy made ice cream. who's right? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
shut up mei, italy made ice cream. who's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, mei · **What happens:** shut up, make, be · **To what, where:** mei, ice cream

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t3:1
# text = shut up mei, italy made ice cream. who's right?
1	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	mei	mei	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	italy	italy	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | imperative | you *not said here* | mei |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mei=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle | mei *not said here* | ice cream |  |  |  | italy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cream=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Neither alone; ice cream has several early homes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t3:o1:1
# text = Neither alone; ice cream has several early homes
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | ice cream | several early homes |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only China, proven, Marco Polo said so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t3:o2:1
# text = Only China, proven, Marco Polo said so
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Marco	Marco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Polo	Polo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | participle | China |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Marco |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only Italy, proven, it's in all the books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t3:o3:1
# text = Only Italy, proven, it's in all the books
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | participle · passive |  | Italy |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  | all books |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody, ice cream was invented in America in 2000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china:t3:o4:1
# text = Nobody, ice cream was invented in America in 2000
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive |  | Nobody ice cream |  | America |  | in 2000 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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