Test 3 · How long since? Counting back
Sophie texts, "It's been, like, a year, babe," since she saw her friend on 20 August. Today is 20 October. What's the real gap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, Today, real gap · What happens: be · To what, where: 20 October
This is test 3 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world 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: Sophie texts, "It's been, like, a year, babe," since she saw her friend on 20 August.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 texts | compound |
| 2 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 been | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 texts | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 been | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 been | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 been | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 12 year | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 been | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 babe | punct |
| 14 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 year | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 babe | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 August | case |
| 23 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 August | nummod |
| 24 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | participle | she | august | see 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: Today is 20 October.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 October | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 October | cop |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 October | nummod |
| 4 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 October | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Today | 20 October | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What's the real gap?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gap | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gap | amod |
| 5 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real gap | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
2 months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10 months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1 year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
20 days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | 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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