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Test 10 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…

Mason moans about school at 9; his dad says factory kids in 1830 started at 6. Why do we have weekends?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mason, dad, factory kids, we · What happens: moan, say, start, have · To what, where: 6 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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: Mason moans about school at 9; his dad says factory kids in 1830 started at 6.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	Mason	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moans	nsubj
2	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moans	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 9	case
6	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 moans	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 moans	conj
11	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kids	compound
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 started	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1830	case
14	1830	1830	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 kids	nmod
15	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 6	case
17	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 started	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Mason					about school; at 9	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at 9=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	Mason's dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start	past	factory kids in 1830			6			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: Why do we have weekends?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	we				weekend		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Computers chose them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	Computers	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Nature made Saturdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Saturdays	saturday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Nature	Saturdays					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset saturday=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Workers fought for shorter hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hours	amod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Workers				hour		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Kings gave them away for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 fun	case
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	Kings		them = they			for fun; away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=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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