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Exam question 3 · Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★

It is given that a ride took place in 1775 and a poem describing it was written in 1860. Calculate the interval between them.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ride, poem, you · What happens: give, take, describe, write, calculate · To what, where: It, place, 1775, poem, 1860, interval

This is exam question 3 of lesson 37 «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a ride took place in 1775 and a poem describing it was written in 1860.

nsubj:passaux:passmarkdetnsubjadvclobjcaseoblccdetnsubj:passaclobjaux:passconjcaseoblpunctrootItPRONisAUXgivenVERBthatSCONJaDETrideNOUNtookVERBplaceNOUNinADP1775NUMandCCONJaDETpoemNOUNdescribingVERBitPRONwasAUXwrittenVERBinADP1860NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 givennsubj:pass
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 givenaux:pass
3givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_7 tookmark
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 ridedet
6riderideNOUNNumber=Sing7 tooknsubj
7tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 givenadvcl
8placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing7 tookobj
9ininADP_10 1775case
1017751775NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card7 tookobl
11andandCCONJ_17 writtencc
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 poemdet
13poempoemNOUNNumber=Sing17 writtennsubj:pass
14describingdescribeVERBVerbForm=Ger13 poemacl
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 describingobj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 writtenaux:pass
17writtenwriteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 tookconj
18ininADP_19 1860case
1918601860NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card17 writtenobl
20..PUNCT_3 givenpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepresent · passiveItvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2takepasta rideplace1775vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in 1775=Location
3describegerunda poem not said herepoemvn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4writepast · passivea poem1860vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1860=Destination

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: Calculate the interval between them.

detobjcasenmodpunctrootCalculateVERBtheDETintervalNOUNbetweenADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CalculatecalculateVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 intervaldet
3intervalintervalNOUNNumber=Sing1 Calculateobj
4betweenbetweenADP_5 themcase
5themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 intervalnmod
6..PUNCT_1 Calculatepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1calculateimperativeyou not said herethe intervalbetween them = theytree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Seventy-five years

nummodpunctconjrootSeventyNUM-PUNCTfiveNUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SeventyseventyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 yearsnummod
2--PUNCT_3 fivepunct
3fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card1 Seventyconj
4yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

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

Option 2

Sixty-five years

nummodpunctconjrootSixtyNUM-PUNCTfiveNUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SixtysixtyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 yearsnummod
2--PUNCT_3 fivepunct
3fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card1 Sixtyconj
4yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eighty-five years

nummodpunctconjrootEightyNUM-PUNCTfiveNUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EightyeightyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 yearsnummod
2--PUNCT_3 fivepunct
3fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card1 Eightyconj
4yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

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

Option 4

One hundred and eighty-five years

compoundnummodcccompoundpunctconjrootOneNUMhundredNUMandCCONJeightyNUM-PUNCTfiveNUMyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 hundredcompound
2hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card7 yearsnummod
3andandCCONJ_6 fivecc
4eightyeightyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card6 fivecompound
5--PUNCT_4 eightypunct
6fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 hundredconj
7yearsyearNOUNNumber=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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