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Test 4 · Decades, centuries and millennia

Grandad at a party in 2000: "Technically we're a year early, you numpties." Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, you · What happens: be, numpty · To what, where: year, party

This is test 4 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: Grandad at a party in 2000: "Technically we're a year early, you numpties."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 party	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 party	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 party	det
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 numpties	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 2000	case
6	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 party	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 year	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 year	punct
9	Technically	technically	ADV	_	13 year	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 year	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 year	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 party	appos
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 year	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 numpties	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 numpties	nsubj
17	numpties	numpty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 numpties	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 numpties	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	we	a year				early, technically property	tree rules
2	numpty in a quote	present	you			a party in 2000			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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The millennium had begun back in 1999

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 millennium	det
2	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begun	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begun	aux
4	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 begun	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1999	case
7	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 begun	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin back	past · perfect	the millennium			1999			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Grandad was looking at the wrong calendar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 calendar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calendar	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 calendar	amod
7	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Grandad					at the wrong calendar	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at calendar=Theme

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

Counting started at year 1, so the millennium began in 2001

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	csubj
2	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Counting	xcomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 year	case
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 millennium	det
9	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 2001	case
12	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 began	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund							vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	start	participle					year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	begin	past	the millennium			2001			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

There was no year 2000 in the calendar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	flat
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 calendar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 calendar	det
8	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no year			the calendar; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in calendar=Location

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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