Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★
★★★ Danny from Liverpool: «Boss film, sound, Columbus with a telescope on deck.» (boss and sound mean great) Spot it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boss · What happens: mean, spot · To what, where: sound
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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: ★★★ Danny from Liverpool: «Boss film, sound, Columbus with a telescope on deck.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Danny | case |
| 4 | Danny | Danny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Liverpool | case |
| 6 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 film | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 film | punct |
| 9 | Boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 film | compound |
| 10 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sound | punct |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 film | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Columbus | punct |
| 14 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 film | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 telescope | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 telescope | det |
| 17 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Columbus | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 deck | case |
| 19 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Columbus | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Columbus | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 film | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: (boss and sound mean great) Spot it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sound | cc |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boss | conj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 8 | Spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Spot | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | boss and sound | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spot not said to happen | infinitive | boss and sound not said here | sound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The deck; his ships had none
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deck | det |
| 2 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ships | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the deck | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
Option 2
Nothing; it's all spot on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 spot | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spot | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spot | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 spot | advmod |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 spot | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing | spot | all property | tree rules |
Option 3
The compass; he had none
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 compass | det |
| 2 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 compass | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the compass | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The telescope came in 1608
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 telescope | det |
| 2 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1608 | case |
| 5 | 1608 | 1608 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the telescope | 1608 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1608=Location |
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