Test 5 · ★ · Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news
Ollie's Gen X dad: "Back in my day, news took ages, not like your phones." How long did news of Waterloo take to reach London in 1815?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: X dad, news · What happens: take, not like, do, reach · To what, where: ages, phones, London, 1815 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Ollie's Gen X dad: "Back in my day, news took ages, not like your phones."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 X | compound |
| 4 | X | X | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | compound |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Back | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Back | punct |
| 8 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 5 dad | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Back | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 news | punct |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | conj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | ccomp |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 phones | nmod:poss |
| 20 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 like | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | Ollie's X dad and news | ages | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent age=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not like in a quote | infinitive | Ollie's X dad and news not said here | your phones | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot phone=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: How long did news of Waterloo take to reach London in 1815?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Waterloo | case |
| 6 | Waterloo | Waterloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 news | nmod |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | advcl |
| 10 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1815 | case |
| 12 | 1815 | 1815 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 reach | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | present | news of Waterloo | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | news of Waterloo not said here | London | 1815 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent london=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
It never arrived
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 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not arrive | past | It | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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