Test 1 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…
Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? That's older than my grandad, lol." How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, many year lives · What happens: be, fit
This is test 1 of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» 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: Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 clocks | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clocks | punct |
| 4 | Shadow | shadow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clocks | amod |
| 5 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Jake | conj |
| 6 | 3,500 | 3500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 clocks | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jake | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: That's older than my grandad, lol."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 older | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 older | cop |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 grandad | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 older | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lol | punct |
| 8 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 older | discourse |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 older | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 older | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | than my grandad; old property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lives | amod |
| 3 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 year | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 70 | punct |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | compound |
| 6 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | 3,500 | 3500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fit | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | many year lives | year | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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