Test 2 · ★★ · Dementia and the first death in the family
Nan was born in 1950 and Mum (Sarah) in 1980. Holly is 10 now, in 2026, and Nan calls her «Sarah». In which year was Mum the age Holly is now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Holly, Nan, Mum · What happens: bear, be, call · To what, where: Nan, 1950, 10, Holly, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 514 «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday 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: Nan was born in 1950 and Mum (Sarah) in 1980.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1950 | case |
| 5 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 born | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Mum | cc |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 1950 | conj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sarah | punct |
| 9 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mum | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sarah | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1980 | case |
| 12 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 born | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Nan | 1950 and Mum | in 1980 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: Holly is 10 now, in 2026, and Nan calls her «Sarah».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 10 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 10 | cop |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 10 | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 2026 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 2026 | case |
| 7 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 10 | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calls | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calls | cc |
| 10 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 calls | nsubj |
| 11 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 10 | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 calls | obj |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sarah | punct |
| 14 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 calls | xcomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sarah | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 10 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Holly | 10 | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present | Nan | Holly | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
Sentence 3: In which year was Mum the age Holly is now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Mum | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mum | cop |
| 5 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Holly | det |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Holly | compound |
| 8 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mum | conj |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mum | acl:relcl |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 is | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mum and the age Holly | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | Mum and the age Holly not said here | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1960
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
1990
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1980
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2016
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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