Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★
★★★ Grandad: «Back in my day, 1969, I watched the Moon landing on the telly.» In 2026, how long ago was that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: watch, be · To what, where: Moon landing, telly, that
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Grandad: «Back in my day, 1969, I watched the Moon landing on the telly.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Grandad | case |
| 4 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Back | punct |
| 7 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 10 day | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 1969 | punct |
| 12 | 1969 | 1969 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 day | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 watched | nsubj |
| 15 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 landing | det |
| 17 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 landing | compound |
| 18 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watched | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 telly | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 telly | det |
| 21 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watched | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 watched | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 watched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | past | ★ ★ Grandad | the Moon landing | the telly | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=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: In 2026, how long ago was that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2026 | case |
| 2 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 ago | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ago | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ago | advmod |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 that | cop |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 ago | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ago | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
69 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 69 | 69 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
47 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
57 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
67 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 | 67 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | 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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