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Test 11 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. Better guess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finn, billion people, first farms · What happens: guess, live, begin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guesses	nsubj
2	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 people	det
4	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guesses	ccomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farms	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 farms	amod
10	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guesses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Finn						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	live	past	a billion people						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the first farms						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: Better guess?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 guess	amod
2	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 guess	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Exactly one billion, so Finn is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 billion	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 billion	compound
3	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 right	advmod
6	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 billion	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Finn					right property	tree rules

Option 2

Eight billion, about the same as there are now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 billion	compound
2	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 same	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 are	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	advcl
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 are	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present				there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A few million, about one big city today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 million	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 million	amod
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 city	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	8 city	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 city	nummod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 city	amod
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 million	conj
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 city	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4

Only about fifty people in the whole world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 fifty	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 fifty	advmod
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 people	nummod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod

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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