Test 11 · Decades, centuries and millennia
Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old? How many millennia is that, then?"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: universe, many millennia · What happens: be · To what, where: that
This is test 11 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: Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 universe | det |
| 5 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 old | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 old | cop |
| 7 | 13.8 | 13.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 billion | compound |
| 8 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ivy | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the universe | year | old 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: How many millennia is that, then?"
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 | 3 millennia | amod |
| 3 | millennia | millennia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 that | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 that | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 then | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many millennia | that | then | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
13.8 billion millennia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13.8 | 13.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 billion | compound |
| 2 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 millennia | nummod |
| 3 | millennia | millennia | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
13.8 thousand millennia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13.8 | 13.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 millennia | nummod |
| 3 | millennia | millennia | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
138 millennia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | millennia | millennia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 138 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
13.8 million millennia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13.8 | 13.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 millennia | nummod |
| 3 | millennia | millennia | 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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