Test 6 · Decades, centuries and millennia
Ella's family tree: her, her mum, her nan, her great-nan. About how many years might that cover?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗
This is test 6 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: Ella's family tree: her, her mum, her nan, her great-nan.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ella | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 her | punct |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tree | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mum | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nan | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nan | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nan | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nan | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 great | punct |
| 17 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: About how many years might that cover?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cover | obl |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cover | aux |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cover | nsubj |
| 7 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cover | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About twenty years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 twenty | advmod |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About a single decade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 4 decade | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 decade | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 decade | amod |
| 4 | decade | decade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About a century
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 century | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 century | det |
| 3 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About a millennium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 millennium | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 millennium | det |
| 3 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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