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Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

★★★ Grandad Bob: «In 1960 we had a telly, a phone box down the road and no internet.» Any anachronism?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: have · To what, where: telly, 1960

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Grandad Bob: «In 1960 we had a telly, a phone box down the road and no internet.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 Bob	case
4	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bob	compound
5	Bob	Bob	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	In	in	ADP	_	9 1960	case
9	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 had	obl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 telly	det
13	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 box	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 box	det
16	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	compound
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 telly	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	20 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 internet	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 internet	det
23	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 road	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	★ ★ Grandad Bob	a telly and a phone box down the road and no internet		1960			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telly=Patient

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: Any anachronism?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 anachronism	det
2	anachronism	anachronism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 anachronism	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The telly; TV came in 1990

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 telly	det
2	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 TV	punct
4	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 telly	conj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1990	case
7	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the telly and TV			1990			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990=Location

Option 2

No internet; it was everywhere then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 internet	det
2	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 everywhere	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 everywhere	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everywhere	cop
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 internet	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 everywhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	internet				then	everywhere property	tree rules

Option 3

The phone box; they came in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 box	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2000	case
8	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the phone box			2000			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2000=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

None; all of that fits 1960

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 fits	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 None	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 all	nmod
6	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 fits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	None	1960					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1960=Patient

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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