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Test 3 · Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poo…

Gran: "In 1900, folk died at 32, pet." What's more exact?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran folk · What happens: die, be · To what, where: pet, 32

This is test 3 of lesson 78 «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» 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: Gran: "In 1900, folk died at 32, pet."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 folk	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 1900	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 1900	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	5 1900	case
5	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Gran	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 32	case
10	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 died	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pet	punct
12	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pet	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 pet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	Gran folk	pet		32			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: What's more exact?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 exact	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exact	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 exact	advmod
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 exact	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						exact property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody lived past 20

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Nobody	20				past property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The average was about 32 because many children died; many adults lived long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 average	det
2	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 32	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 32	advmod
5	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 average	nmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 died	mark
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 average	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 adults	amod
12	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		32				about property	tree rules
2	die	past	many children	the average not said here					tree rules
3	live	past	the average					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

People lived longer then than now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 lived	advmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lived	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 then	fixed
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	People				then; now	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Everyone died on their 32nd birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 birthday	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 birthday	nmod:poss
5	32nd	32nd	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	6 birthday	amod
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Everyone			their 32nd birthday			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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