Exam question 4 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

Given that a person was seven years of age at the first Moon landing in 1969, determine that person's approximate age in the year 2026.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: give, be, determine · To what, where: first Moon landing, approximate age

This is exam question 4 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 determine	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 age	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 age	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 age	cop
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 age	nmod:unmarked
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 age	case
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Given	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 landing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 landing	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 landing	amod
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 landing	compound
14	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 age	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 1969	case
16	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 landing	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Given	punct
18	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 person	det
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 age	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 person	case
22	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 age	amod
23	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 determine	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 year	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 determine	obl
27	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 year	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	participle	you not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	a person		the first Moon landing in 1969	of age; year	tree rules
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	that person's approximate age		year	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sixty-nine years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sixty	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Seventy-six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventy	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty-four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sixty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fifty-seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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