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

Ella: "Was there YouTube when you were 10, Grandad?" He was 10 in 1980. What's right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: YouTube · What happens: be · To what, where: YouTube, 10, 1980

This is test 4 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: Ella: "Was there YouTube when you were 10, Grandad?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 10	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 YouTube	punct
4	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 YouTube	cop
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 YouTube	expl
6	YouTube	YouTube	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 10	nsubj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 10	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 10	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 10	cop
10	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Ella	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Grandad	punct
12	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ella	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ella	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ella	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		YouTube		there			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	YouTube	10					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: He was 10 in 1980.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 10	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 10	cop
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1980	case
5	1980	1980	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 10	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 10	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	YouTube	10		1980			tree rules

Sentence 3: What's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, but only in black and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 black	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 black	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 black	case
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 white	cc
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj

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

Option 2

Yes, YouTube started in 1975

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	YouTube	YouTube	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1975	case
6	1975	1975	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	YouTube			1975			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

No, but everyone had smartphones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	smartphones	smartphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	everyone	smartphones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smartphone=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No; the web went public in 1991 and YouTube started in 2005

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 went	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 web	det
4	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1991	case
8	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 started	cc
10	YouTube	YouTube	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 2005	case
13	2005	2005	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the web			1991		public property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1991=Location
2	start	past	YouTube			2005			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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