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Test 11 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…

Your mate reckons hourglasses were invented after wristwatches. Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: reckon, invent, put · To what, where: hourglasses, mate

This is test 11 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: Your mate reckons hourglasses were invented after wristwatches.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hourglasses	hourglass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 invented	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 invented	aux:pass
6	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reckons	ccomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 wristwatches	case
8	wristwatches	wristwatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 invented	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Your mate						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	invent	past · passive		hourglasses			after wristwatches		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	mate				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

Hourglasses and wristwatches were invented on the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hourglasses	hourglass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 invented	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wristwatches	cc
3	wristwatches	wristwatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hourglasses	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invented	aux:pass
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Hourglasses and wristwatches			day		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 2

He's right, hourglasses came after wristwatches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	hourglasses	hourglass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 wristwatches	case
8	wristwatches	wristwatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	come	past	hourglasses				after wristwatches		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hourglasses were common in Europe about 700 years ago, long before wristwatches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hourglasses	hourglass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 common	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 common	cop
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 common	obl
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 700	advmod
7	700	700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 common	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wristwatches	punct
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 wristwatches	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 wristwatches	case
13	wristwatches	wristwatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 common	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hourglasses			Europe	before wristwatches	ago, common property	tree rules

Option 4

Hourglasses were first made in the year 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hourglasses	hourglass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
8	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 year	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Hourglasses			year	first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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