Test 9 · Decades, centuries and millennia
Grace: "That song's from the noughties? It's like 20 years old, that's ancient, I'm dead." ("I'm dead" means I'm laughing so hard.) The song is from 2006. How old is it in 2026?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: song, that, I · What happens: be, mean, laugh · To what, where: 2006, song, 2026 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Grace: "That song's from the noughties?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 noughties | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 noughties | punct |
| 4 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noughties | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 song | case |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 noughties | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 noughties | det |
| 9 | noughties | noughty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Grace | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grace | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: It's like 20 years old, that's ancient, I'm dead."
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 | 6 old | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ancient | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 ancient | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ancient | cop |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dead | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dead | cop |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | song | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | ancient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | dead property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: ("I'm dead" means I'm laughing so hard.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | csubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 laughing | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughing | aux |
| 10 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hard | advmod |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 laughing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | laugh | present · progressive | I | hard property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 4: The song is from 2006.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 2006 | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 2006 | cop |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 2006 | case |
| 5 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 2006 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the song | 2006 | tree rules |
Sentence 5: How old is it in 2026?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 old | advmod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 is | amod |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 2026 | case |
| 6 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 is | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | song | 2026 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2026=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
20 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
60 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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