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Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, totally legit.» What's up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: check, be · To what, where: pocket watch

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, totally legit.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 checks	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	4 Ruby	punct
4	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Toronto	case
6	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ruby	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Knight	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Knight	punct
9	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 checks	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1100	case
11	1100	1100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 Knight	nmod
12	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 watch	nmod:poss
14	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watch	compound
15	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 checks	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
17	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 checks	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 legit	punct
19	totally	totally	ADV	_	20 legit	advmod
20	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 checks	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 legit	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 legit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check in a quote	present	★ and Ruby in Toronto	Knight's pocket watch					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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: What's up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 's	compound:prt
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Watches were banned in castles back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watches	watch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 castles	case
5	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	obl
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 banned	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 banned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban back	past · passive		Watches		castles	then		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Nothing; it's totally legit, eh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 legit	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 legit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legit	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 legit	advmod
6	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eh	punct
8	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 legit	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					legit, totally property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pocket watches came about 400 years later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	compound
2	watches	watch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 400	advmod
5	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 later	obl:unmarked
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come about	past	Pocket watches					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Knights could not tell the time in any way at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	Knights			any way	time	at all	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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