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Test 10 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

Ava's dad: "Back in the day, we rewound cassettes with a pencil." Ava: "Back in what day?" What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, Ava · What happens: rewind, mean · To what, where: cassettes

This is test 10 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: Ava's dad: "Back in the day, we rewound cassettes with a pencil."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rewound	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Back	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Back	punct
6	Back	back	ADV	_	3 dad	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Back	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 rewound	nsubj
12	rewound	rewind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	cassettes	cassette	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rewound	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pencil	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pencil	det
16	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rewound	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rewound	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 rewound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rewind in a quote	past	Ava's dad	cassettes				with a pencil	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: Ava: "Back in what day?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Back	punct
4	Back	back	ADV	_	7 day	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ava	appos
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Ava						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One special day in history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 history	case
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

When he was young, before music was on phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 young	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 phones	punct
6	before	before	ADP	_	10 phones	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 phones	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 phones	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 phones	case
10	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 young	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					young property	tree rules
2	is	past	music				before phones		tree rules

Option 3

In the Middle Ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 Ages	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ages	det
3	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ages	flat
4	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Yesterday, before school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 school	punct
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yesterday	conj

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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