Test 4 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
Mia: "The pyramids are like 2,000 years old, no?" Her sister: "Way older, babe." Who's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Mia: "The pyramids are like 2,000 years old, no?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 old | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pyramids | det |
| 5 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 old | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 no | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 old | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mia | year | old property | 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: Her sister: "Way older, babe."
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 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Way | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Way | punct |
| 5 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | appos |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 Way | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 babe | punct |
| 8 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Who's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 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
The sister: about 4,500 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 4,500 | advmod |
| 5 | 4,500 | 4,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sister | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Neither: about 45,000 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 years | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 45,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 45,000 | 45,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Neither: about 450 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 years | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 450 | advmod |
| 4 | 450 | 450 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Mia: about 2,000 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 2,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mia | parataxis |
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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