Test 2 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
Theo: "What happened in year 0, sir?" Teacher: "Trick question." Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theo · What happens: happen
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Theo: "What happened in year 0, sir?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 4 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Theo | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 year | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sir | punct |
| 10 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Theo | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Theo | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Theo | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past | Theo | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Teacher: "Trick question."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 question | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 4 | Trick | trick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 question | amod |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: 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 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing happened, so it was left out of books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 left | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happened | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 books | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 books | case |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave out | past · passive | it | books | tree rules |
Option 2
Year 0 was skipped in 1752
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skipped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skipped | aux:pass |
| 4 | skipped | skip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1752 | case |
| 6 | 1752 | 1752 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 skipped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past · passive | Year | 1752 | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in 1752=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
There was no year 0; 1 BC is followed by AD 1
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 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | flat |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 BC | nummod |
| 8 | BC | BC | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | aux:pass |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 AD | case |
| 12 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obl |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 AD | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no year | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | present · passive | AD | 1 BC | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 4
Year 0 lasted only one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | nsubj |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | Year | day | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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