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Test 1 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…

Ryan reckons school's a modern torture invented last century. What would his teacher say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ryan, school, teacher · What happens: reckon, be, invent, say · To what, where: modern torture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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: Ryan reckons school's a modern torture invented last century.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 torture	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 torture	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 torture	det
6	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 torture	amod
7	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	ccomp
8	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 torture	acl
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 century	amod
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invented	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ryan						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	school	a modern torture					tree rules
3	invent	participle		a modern torture not said here			century		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: 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: What would his teacher say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teacher	nmod:poss
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Ryan's teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Schools are old, but back then only grown-ups went to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 then	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 ups	advmod
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ups	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grown	punct
11	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 old	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 school	case
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Schools					old property	tree rules
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	grown ups			school	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 2

Schools began with the internet, so about 30 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 internet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 internet	det
5	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 years	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 30	advmod
9	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	obl
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Schools				year	with the internet	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with internet=Subeventuality

Option 3

Correct, school only began in about the year 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 school	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Correct	punct
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 year	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
10	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 year	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Correct school				year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Schools are about 4,000 years old, but most kids did not go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 4,000	advmod
4	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 go	cc
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 kids	amod
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 go	advmod
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Schools				year	old property	tree rules
2	not go	past · do-support	most kids						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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