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Test 8 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…

Jasper's grandad's grandad saw the first car in the village. How quickly did travel change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: see, travel · To what, where: first car, village, change

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Jasper's grandad's grandad saw the first car in the village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jasper	Jasper	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jasper	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grandad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grandad	case
5	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 car	amod
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Jasper's grandad's grandad	the first car		the village			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus

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: How quickly did travel change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 quickly	advmod
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 travel	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travel	aux
4	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travel	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 travel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · do-support		change				quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme change=Trajectory

The options

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

From the first planes to the Moon in 66 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 planes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 planes	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 planes	amod
4	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 planes	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 planes	nmod

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

Option 2

It never changed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 changed	advmod
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	past	It			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It took 2,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cars came after the Moon landing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 landing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 landing	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 landing	compound
6	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Cars				after the Moon landing		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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