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Test 3 · Decades, centuries and millennia

Freya, from Newcastle: "A millennium's a thousand years, like. Has any bairn been alive that long?" ("Bairn" means child.) What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: millennium, bairn · What happens: be, have, mean · To what, where: thousand years, child

This is test 3 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: Freya, from Newcastle: "A millennium's a thousand years, like.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Newcastle	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Newcastle	case
4	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Freya	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
7	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 millennium	det
8	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 years	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 years	det
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Freya	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	12 years	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Freya	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a millennium	a thousand years					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: Has any bairn been alive that long?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bairn	det
3	bairn	bairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alive	nsubj
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 alive	cop
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Has	ccomp
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 long	nsubj
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 alive	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Has	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	any bairn					alive property	tree rules

Sentence 3: ("Bairn" means child.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Bairn	punct
3	Bairn	Bairn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Bairn	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
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	Bairn	child					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic

Sentence 4: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No person has, but some trees are over 4,000 years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 old	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 4,000	advmod
10	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	no person						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	some trees				year	old property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, but only people in ancient times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 people	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	nmod

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

Option 3

No living thing has lived over 200 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 thing	det
2	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	aux
5	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 200	advmod
7	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	no living thing				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, lots of people have lived 1,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	aux
7	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	lots of people				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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