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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.»

nsubjdepcasenmodpunctpunctadvmodcasenmod:possappospunctappospunctnsubjdetcompoundobjcasedetoblpunctpunctroot★PROPN★X★ADPGrandadPROPN:PUNCT«PUNCTBackADVinADPmyPRONdayNOUN,PUNCT1969NUM,PUNCTIPRONwatchedVERBtheDETMoonPROPNlandingNOUNonADPtheDETtellyNOUN.PUNCT»PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1★★PROPNNumber=Sing15 watchednsubj
2★★XForeign=Yes1 ★dep
3★★ADP_4 Grandadcase
4GrandadGrandadPROPNNumber=Sing1 ★nmod
5::PUNCT_10 daypunct
6««PUNCT_7 Backpunct
7BackbackADV_10 dayadvmod
8ininADP_10 daycase
9mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 daynmod:poss
10daydayNOUNNumber=Sing1 ★appos
11,,PUNCT_12 1969punct
1219691969NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card10 dayappos
13,,PUNCT_1 ★punct
14IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 watchednsubj
15watchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 landingdet
17MoonMoonPROPNNumber=Sing18 landingcompound
18landinglandingNOUNNumber=Sing15 watchedobj
19ononADP_21 tellycase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 tellydet
21tellytellyNOUNNumber=Sing15 watchedobl
22..PUNCT_15 watchedpunct
23»»PUNCT_15 watchedpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watch in a quotepast★ ★ Grandadthe Moon landingthe tellyvn 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?

caseoblpunctadvmodadvmodcopoblpunctrootInADP2026NUM,PUNCThowADVlongADVagoADVwasAUXthatPRON?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 2026case
220262026NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 agoobl
3,,PUNCT_6 agopunct
4howhowADVPronType=Int5 longadvmod
5longlongADVDegree=Pos6 agoadvmod
6agoagoADV_rootroot
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 thatcop
8thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 agoobl
9??PUNCT_6 agopunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastthattree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

69 years

nummodroot69NUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
16969NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 yearsnummod
2yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

47 years

nummodroot47NUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
14747NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 yearsnummod
2yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

57 years

nummodroot57NUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
15757NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 yearsnummod
2yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

67 years

nummodroot67NUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
16767NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 yearsnummod
2yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

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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