Exam question 3 · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★
A person born in the year 20 BC attains a birthday in AD 20. State the age then attained, there being no year zero.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person, you · What happens: bear, attain, state, be · To what, where: 20, birthday, AD, age, year
This is exam question 3 of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: A person born in the year 20 BC attains a birthday in AD 20.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attains | nsubj |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 person | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 born | obl |
| 8 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | attains | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 birthday | det |
| 11 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attains | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 AD | case |
| 13 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attains | obl |
| 14 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 AD | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 attains | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | a person not said here | 20 BC | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | attain | present | a person | a birthday | AD | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=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: State the age then attained, there being no year zero.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 age | det |
| 3 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 attained | advmod |
| 5 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 State | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 year | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 year | expl |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 year | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 year | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the age | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent age=Topic | ||||
| 2 | attain | past | you not said here | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | no year | there | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Thirty-nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 nine | punct |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Thirty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Forty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Forty-one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Forty | 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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