Test 2 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990
Grandad: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lot!" Which machine is he on about?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, you · What happens: love, lot · To what, where: screen
This is test 2 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: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lot!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Green | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Green | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Green | punct |
| 4 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 screen | cc |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 screen | amod |
| 7 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Green | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loved | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Green | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lot | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 lot | nsubj |
| 15 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lot | amod |
| 16 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Green | parataxis |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 lot | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | past | we | screen | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lot in a quote | you | 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: Which machine is he on about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 machine | det |
| 2 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 on | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 on | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 on | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 on | fixed |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 on | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
YouTube, from 2005
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YouTube | YouTube | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 YouTube | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 2005 | case |
| 4 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 YouTube | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The smartphone, from 2007
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smartphone | det |
| 2 | smartphone | smartphone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 smartphone | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 2007 | case |
| 5 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 smartphone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A tablet, from 2010
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tablet | det |
| 2 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 2010 | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 2010 | case |
| 5 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 tablet | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Game Boy, from 1989
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | Game | Game | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Boy | compound |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1989 | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 1989 | case |
| 6 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Boy | flat |
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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