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.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 took | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ride | det |
| 6 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1775 | case |
| 10 | 1775 | 1775 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 written | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 poem | det |
| 13 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | describing | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 poem | acl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 describing | obj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | aux:pass |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 took | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1860 | case |
| 19 | 1860 | 1860 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 written | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | a ride | place | 1775 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in 1775=Location | |||
| 3 | describe | gerund | a poem not said here | poem | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | write | past · passive | a poem | 1860 | vn 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.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calculate | calculate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 interval | det |
| 3 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calculate | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 interval | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calculate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calculate | imperative | you not said here | the interval | between them = they | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Seventy-five years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Seventy | conj |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sixty-five years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Sixty | conj |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Eighty-five years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Eighty | conj |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One hundred and eighty-five years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 five | cc |
| 4 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 five | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 eighty | punct |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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