Test 10 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
Mila draws 2,000 years on 1 metre. Her mate: "Your birth's gonna take up half the line, bruv." What's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mila, mate · What happens: draw, take up, be · To what, where: 1 metre, line
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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: Mila draws 2,000 years on 1 metre.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mila | Mila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 draws | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 metre | case |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 metre | nummod |
| 7 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Mila | 1 metre | year | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on metre=Destination |
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: Her mate: "Your birth's gonna take up half the line, bruv."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 gonna | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gonna | punct |
| 5 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 birth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gonna | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 birth | case |
| 8 | gonna | gonna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | nsubj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 13 line | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bruv | punct |
| 15 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 line | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up in a quote | infinitive | Mila's mate | half line | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
Sentence 3: What's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's just half a centimetre from the end
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 centimetre | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 centimetre | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 half | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 6 centimetre | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 centimetre | det |
| 6 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centimetre | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | half centimetre | from the end | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, half the line, so a whole 50 centimetres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 line | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 line | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 line | det |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 centimetres | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 centimetres | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 centimetres | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 centimetres | amod |
| 10 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 centimetres | nummod |
| 11 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 line | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
It's 10 centimetres from the end of the line
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 | 4 centimetres | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 centimetres | cop |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 centimetres | nummod |
| 4 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centimetres | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 line | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 line | det |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 10 centimetres | from the end of the line | tree rules |
Option 4
It's right at the very start of the whole line
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 | 7 start | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 start | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 start | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 start | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 start | advmod |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | the start | of the whole line; right property | tree rules |
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