Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★
★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899». What should it be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Mia, teacher · What happens: write, be · To what, where: 1800, 1899
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mia | case |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | nsubj |
| 7 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 century | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 century | det |
| 10 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 century | amod |
| 11 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 century | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 writes | cc |
| 14 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 writes | nsubj |
| 15 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 writes | conj |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 1800 | punct |
| 17 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 writes | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 1899 | case |
| 19 | 1899 | 1899 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 1800 | nmod |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 1800 | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | ★ | century | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | present | Mia | 1800 | 1899 | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent 1800=Topic to 1899=Recipient |
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 should it be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 be | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | should | teacher | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1601 to 1700
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1601 | 1601 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 1700 | case |
| 3 | 1700 | 1700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 1601 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1801 to 1900
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1801 | 1801 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 1900 | case |
| 3 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 1801 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1800 to 1899
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 1899 | case |
| 3 | 1899 | 1899 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 1800 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
1701 to 1800
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1701 | 1701 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 1800 | case |
| 3 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 1701 | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t4/