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Test 8 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

Josh: "Mum, were you alive in the 1900s?" She sighs: "Born 1989, so technically yes. Cheers." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh · What happens: be, sigh · To what, where: 1900s

This is test 8 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: Josh: "Mum, were you alive in the 1900s?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 alive	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Josh	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Josh	punct
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 1900s	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1900s	det
11	1900s	1900	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	8 alive	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 alive	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 alive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Josh			the 1900s		alive property	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: She sighs: "Born 1989, so technically yes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sighs	nsubj
2	sighs	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Born	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Born	punct
5	Born	born	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sighs	xcomp
6	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Born	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 technically	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 technically	advmod
9	technically	technically	ADV	_	2 sighs	advmod
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 technically	discourse
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sighs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	present	Josh					born, technically property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Cheers."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Cheers	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Cheers	punct

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

Sentence 4: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

1989 is in the 21st century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 century	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 century	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 century	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 century	det
5	21st	21st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	6 century	amod
6	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	1989					in the 21st century	tree rules

Option 2

The 1900s ended in 1950

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 1900s	det
2	1900s	1900	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1950	case
5	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	the 1900s			1950			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

1989 is in the 1800s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 1800s	nummod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 1800s	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 1800s	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 1800s	det
5	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the 1989 1800s			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

1989 is in the 1900s, the 20th century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 1900s	nummod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 1900s	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 1900s	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 1900s	det
5	1900s	1900	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 century	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 century	det
8	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	9 century	amod
9	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 1900s	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the 1989 1900s			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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