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Test 1 · Decades, centuries and millennia

Ruby: "Nan was a teen in the eighties? So, like, 80 years ago?" What's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan · What happens: be · To what, where: teen, eighties

This is test 1 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» 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: Ruby: "Nan was a teen in the eighties?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 teen	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 teen	punct
4	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 teen	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 teen	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teen	det
7	teen	teen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ruby	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eighties	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eighties	det
10	eighties	eighties	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 teen	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ruby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Nan	a teen		the eighties			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: So, like, 80 years ago?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 ago	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ago	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 ago	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ago	punct
5	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ago	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ago	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The eighties are 1880 to 1889

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eighties	det
2	eighties	eighties	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 1880	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 1880	cop
4	1880	1880	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 1889	case
6	1889	1889	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 1880	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the eighties	1880				to 1889	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The eighties are 1980 to 1989, about 40 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eighties	det
2	eighties	eighties	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 1980	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 1980	cop
4	1980	1980	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 1989	case
6	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 1980	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 40	advmod
9	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 1980	parataxis
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the eighties	1980				to 1989	tree rules

Option 3

It means when she was 80 years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 old	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
6	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she				year	old property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, exactly 80 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 80	advmod
4	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 years	advmod

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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