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Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…

★★★ The poem says Taffy lived on Merrow Down «long and long before» the ancient Britons traded there. If the Britons traded about 2,500 years ago, when did Taffy live?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Taffy, ancient Britons, Britons · What happens: say, live, trade · To what, where: Merrow Down · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 86 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books 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 poem says Taffy lived on Merrow Down «long and long before» the ancient Britons traded there.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 poem	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Down	case
10	Merrow	Merrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Down	compound
11	Down	Down	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 traded	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 before	cc
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 before	advmod
16	before	before	ADV	_	13 long	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Britons	det
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Britons	amod
20	Britons	Briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 traded	nsubj
21	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	advcl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 traded	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	past	Taffy			Merrow Down			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on down=Location
3	trade	past	the ancient Britons			there		long property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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: If the Britons traded about 2,500 years ago, when did Taffy live?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 traded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Britons	det
3	Britons	Briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 traded	nsubj
4	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 live	advcl
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 2,500	advmod
6	2,500	2500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 traded	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 live	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 live	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 live	aux
12	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 live	nsubj
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade a condition, not said to happen	past	the Britons					ago property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	live	past · do-support	Taffy						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Even earlier than that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	2 earlier	advmod
2	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 earlier	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

After the Romans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 Romans	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Romans	det
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

At just the same time as the ancient Britons traded there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 time	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 traded	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 Britons	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Britons	det
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Britons	amod
9	Britons	Briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 time	nmod
10	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 traded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past				there	time		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 year	amod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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