Test 9 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?" What's careful and true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: found, be · To what, where: Olena, 482
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olena | Olena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 founded | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 founded | punct |
| 4 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 founded | aux:pass |
| 6 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 482 | case |
| 8 | 482 | 482 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 founded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 1,500 | advmod |
| 14 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 old | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 founded | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 founded | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 founded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found in a quote | past · passive | Olena | 482 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | 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: What's careful and true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 true | cc |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 careful | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2,508 years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,508 | 2,508 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 old | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only 482 years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 482 | advmod |
| 2 | 482 | 482 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 old | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Exactly 1,544 years, proven to the very day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 1,544 | advmod |
| 2 | 1,544 | 1,544 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 proven | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proven | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | participle | 1,544 years | day | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
1,544 years by the traditional date, which comes from old stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,544 | 1,544 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 date | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 date | det |
| 5 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 date | amod |
| 6 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stories | amod |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | old stories | year | by the traditional date | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from story=Initial_Location |
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