Test 8 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…
Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? That's sick." ("Sick" means brilliant.) How long before 2026 was that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, Sick · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: that
This is test 8 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: Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 tower | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tower | punct |
| 4 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Song | compound |
| 5 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Song | case |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | compound |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 1088 | punct |
| 10 | 1088 | 1088 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 tower | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: That's sick."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sick | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | sick property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: ("Sick" means brilliant.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sick | punct |
| 3 | Sick | Sick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sick | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Sick | brilliant property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 4: How long before 2026 was that?
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 | 4 2026 | advmod |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 2026 | case |
| 4 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 that | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 2026 | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 2026 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1,938 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,938 | 1,938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
838 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 838 | 838 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1,088 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,088 | 1,088 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
938 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 938 | 938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | 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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