Test 9 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…
Ava laughs at a dial phone; Grandad says it was cutting edge, kid. When did TV spread?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, Grandad, phone · What happens: laugh, say, cut, spread · To what, where: dial phone, edge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Ava laughs at a dial phone; Grandad says it was cutting edge, kid.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 phone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 phone | det |
| 5 | dial | dial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 phone | compound |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughs | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cutting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cutting | aux |
| 12 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 says | ccomp |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cutting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kid | punct |
| 15 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edge | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Ava | a dial phone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cut | past · progressive | phone | edge and kid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material edge=Product |
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: When did TV spread?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 spread | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux |
| 3 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | compound |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · do-support | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
In Roman times, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 times | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Mostly from the 1950s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 1950s | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 1950s | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1950s | det |
| 4 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only in the 2020s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 2020s | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 2020s | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 2020s | det |
| 4 | 2020s | 2020 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Back in the early 1700s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1700s | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 1700s | det |
| 4 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 1700s | amod |
| 5 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 1 Back | obl |
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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