Test 9 · ★ · Grown-ups who argue and make up
The card on the fridge says "Happy 10th Anniversary". How long ago did they marry or get together?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: card, they · What happens: say, marry, get together · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 14 «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: The card on the fridge says "Happy 10th Anniversary".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 card | det |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 fridge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fridge | det |
| 5 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 card | nmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Anniversary | punct |
| 8 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Anniversary | amod |
| 9 | 10th | 10th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 Anniversary | amod |
| 10 | Anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Anniversary | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the card on the fridge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: How long ago did they marry or get together?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 marry | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marry | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 get | cc |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 marry | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 marry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · do-support | they | ago property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get together | infinitive | they not said here | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ten months ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ten years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One year ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A hundred years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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