Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★
★★★ Ava texts: «my history test's taking literally a thousand years lol». How many generations is a real 1,000 years?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: texts, my, many generations · What happens: take, test, be · To what, where: real 1,000 years
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Ava texts: «my history test's taking literally a thousand years lol».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 texts | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Ava | case |
| 4 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 test | nmod:poss |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 test | compound |
| 10 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 test | case |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 texts | acl |
| 13 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 15 thousand | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taking | obj |
| 17 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 12 taking | discourse |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | gerund | texts not said here | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | test in a quote | my | nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 many generations is a real 1,000 years?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 generations | amod |
| 3 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 years | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 years | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 years | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 7 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 years | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many generations | a real 1,000 years | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 1,000, one for every year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 1,000 | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Just 1, because she said literally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | 1 | literally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 40, at 25 years each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 40 | advmod |
| 2 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 40 | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 25 | case |
| 5 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 40 | nmod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 years | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 4, at 250 years each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 4 | advmod |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 4 | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 250 | case |
| 5 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 4 | nmod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 years | nmod:unmarked |
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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