Test 9 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990
Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." Leo: "So how old are you now?" It's 2026.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, Leo, landing · What happens: watch, be · To what, where: Moon landing, 7, 2026
This is test 9 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: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Watched | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Watched | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Watched | punct |
| 4 | Watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 landing | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 landing | compound |
| 7 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Watched | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 7 | case |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Watched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 69 | punct |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 69 | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 69 | case |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 69 | punct |
| 14 | 69 | 69 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Watched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 69 | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Watched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | past | Grandad | the Moon landing | 7 | in 69 | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme |
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: Leo: "So how old are you now?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 4 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 old | nsubj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 old | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Leo | now | old property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: It's 2026.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 2026 | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 2026 | cop |
| 3 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 2026 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | landing | 2026 | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 57
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 57 | advmod |
| 2 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 64
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 64 | advmod |
| 2 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 69
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 69 | advmod |
| 2 | 69 | 69 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 76
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 76 | advmod |
| 2 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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