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Test 4 · ★ · Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news

Ethan: "Confucius, Buddha and Socrates lived at the same time? Did they, like, have a group chat?" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ethan · What happens: live, do, have · To what, where: group chat

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 75 «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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: Ethan: "Confucius, Buddha and Socrates lived at the same time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lived	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Confucius	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Confucius	punct
4	Confucius	Confucius	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ethan	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Buddha	punct
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Confucius	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Socrates	cc
8	Socrates	Socrates	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ethan	conj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	past	Ethan and Confucius and Buddha and Socrates				time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Did they, like, have a group chat?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chat	det
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chat	compound
9	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ethan						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present		a group chat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient

Sentence 3: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

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

No, they lived far apart and never knew of each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 apart	advmod
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knew	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 knew	advmod
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 knew	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they					apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	past	they not said here					of each	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of each=Stimulus

Option 2

They were all the same person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 person	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 person	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 person	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	all same person					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they met up in Athens once a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 met	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Athens	case
7	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 met	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet up	past	they			Athens		once property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, sort of: they sent notes by carrier pigeon every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	parataxis
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 sort	fixed
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 pigeon	case
10	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pigeon	compound
11	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	they	notes			week	by carrier pigeon	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=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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