Test 5 · Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones
Teacher: "The first coins were made 2,600 years ago." Liam: "Older than my nan then." If a lifetime is about 100 years, how many lifetimes back is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lifetime · What happens: make, be · To what, where: first coins, 100 years
This is test 5 of lesson 5 «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» of the money 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: Teacher: "The first coins were made 2,600 years ago."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coins | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 coins | amod |
| 6 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | 2,600 | 2,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past · passive | the first coins | Teacher vocative; ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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: Liam: "Older than my nan then."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Older | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Older | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Older | punct |
| 4 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 nan | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Older | obl |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Older | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Older | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Older | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: If a lifetime is about 100 years, how many lifetimes back is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 years | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lifetime | det |
| 3 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 years | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 100 | advmod |
| 6 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 back | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lifetimes | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lifetimes | amod |
| 11 | lifetimes | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 years | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 back | cop |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 back | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 back | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | a lifetime | 100 years and many lifetimes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that obl; back property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 26 | advmod |
| 2 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 260
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 260 | advmod |
| 2 | 260 | 260 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 6 | advmod |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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