Test 1 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

Grandad: "No phones in our pockets in 1990." Kai: "So, like, the Middle Ages, then." Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: fix · To what, where: it

This is test 1 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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: Grandad: "No phones in our pockets in 1990."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 phones	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 phones	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 phones	punct
4	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 phones	det
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pockets	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pockets	nmod:poss
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 phones	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1990	case
10	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 pockets	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 phones	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 phones	punct

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

Sentence 2: Kai: "So, like, the Middle Ages, then."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ages	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 So	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 So	punct
4	So	so	ADV	_	10 Ages	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ages	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 Ages	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ages	det
9	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ages	flat
10	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ages	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 Ages	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Ages	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Ages	punct

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

Sentence 3: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

1990 was 36 years ago; the Middle Ages ended about 500 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 ago	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ago	cop
3	36	36	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ago	obl:unmarked
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ended	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ages	det
8	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ages	flat
9	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 ended	nsubj
10	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ago	parataxis
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 500	advmod
12	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ended	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	1990				year	ago property	tree rules
2	end	past	the Middle Ages				year		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Kai's right: 1990 was in the Middle Ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Ages	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 1990	punct
5	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 right	appos
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Ages	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ages	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ages	det
9	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ages	flat
10	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kai's right				in the Middle Ages		tree rules

Option 3

The Middle Ages ended in 1990

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ages	det
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ages	flat
3	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 ended	nsubj
4	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1990	case
6	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	the Middle Ages			1990			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

1990 was about 1,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 1,000	advmod
4	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	1990	1,000 years				ago property	tree rules

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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