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Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

★★★ Ollie: «The war was 1914 to 1918, so five years of fighting, easy.» What's the catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: catch · What happens: be · To what, where: 1914

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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: «The war was 1914 to 1918, so five years of fighting, easy.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Ollie	case
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 war	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 1914	cop
10	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 war	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 1918	case
12	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 1914	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 five	advmod
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ★	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fighting	case
18	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 years	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 easy	punct
20	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ★	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		1914				to 1918	tree rules

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 the catch?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 catch	det
4	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the catch						tree rules

The options

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

It touched five years but lasted just over four

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 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touched	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 lasted	cc
6	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 four	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	9 four	advmod
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	It				year		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	last	past		four					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

None; it lasted exactly five full years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 lasted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lasted	nsubj
4	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 None	acl:relcl
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	it				year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It touched four years and lasted three

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 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touched	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lasted	cc
6	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lasted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	It				year		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	last	past		three					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme three=Value

Option 4

It lasted 18 years, from 1900 to 1918

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 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 1900	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 1900	case
7	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 lasted	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 1918	case
9	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 1900	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It			1900 to 1918	year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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