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Test 6 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

Grandad Bill says he had no internet as a kid. So was he a knight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: internet, knight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Grandad Bill says he had no internet as a kid.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	flat
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 internet	det
7	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 kid	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Grandad	no internet				as a kid	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent internet=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: So was he a knight?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 knight	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knight	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knight	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 knight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Grandad	a knight					tree rules

The options

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

No, he had TV, cars and planes, just no internet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	TV	TV	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cars	punct
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 planes	cc
9	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cars	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 internet	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 internet	advmod
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 internet	det
13	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	TV				no internet obl	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, the olden days had no machines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
4	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 machines	det
8	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the olden days	no machines					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient

Option 3

No, he had smartphones too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	smartphones	smartphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	smartphones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smartphone=Patient

Option 4

Yes, he lived in a castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 castle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	he			a castle			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location

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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