Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★
★★★ Liam from Dublin: "Sure Voyager'd get to Proxima before me nan's birthday, it's grand." How long would it really take?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sure Voyager, birthday, it · What happens: get, be, take
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space 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: ★★★ Liam from Dublin: "Sure Voyager'd get to Proxima before me nan's birthday, it's grand."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Liam | case |
| 4 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Dublin | case |
| 6 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | Sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Voyager | amod |
| 10 | Voyager | Voyager | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 ★ | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Proxima | case |
| 14 | Proxima | proxima | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 birthday | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 before | obl |
| 17 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 nan | case |
| 19 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grand | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grand | nsubj |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grand | cop |
| 23 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 grand | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | would | Sure Voyager | before nan's birthday | to Proxima result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to proxima=Result | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | birthday | grand property | tree rules |
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: How long would it really take?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | it | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 8 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 8 | advmod |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 75,000 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 75,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 75,000 | 75,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 4.2 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 4.2 | advmod |
| 2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 47 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 47 | advmod |
| 2 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | 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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