Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★
Zoe: "No cap, 2000 was the first year of the 21st century, everyone partied." What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zoe, everyone · What happens: be, party · To what, where: first year
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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: Zoe: "No cap, 2000 was the first year of the 21st century, everyone partied."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 year | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 cap | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cap | punct |
| 4 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 cap | det |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Zoe | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cap | punct |
| 7 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Zoe | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 year | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 partied | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 century | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 century | det |
| 14 | 21st | 21st | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 15 century | amod |
| 15 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 year | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 year | punct |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 partied | nsubj |
| 18 | partied | party | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 partied | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 partied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Zoe 2000 | the first year | century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | party in a quote | past | everyone | 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: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | 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
The century began in 1999
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 century | det |
| 2 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1999 | case |
| 5 | 1999 | 1999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 began | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the century | 1999 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Centuries start with whatever year people pick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 start | nsubj |
| 2 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 whatever | case |
| 4 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 start | obl |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | compound |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pick | nsubj |
| 7 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whatever | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Centuries | with whatever | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with whatever=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | pick | present | year people | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
She's right, 2000 opened the century
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 | 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 | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 5 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 century | det |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | 2000 | century | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The partying is true, but the century began in 2001
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 partying | det |
| 2 | partying | partying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 century | det |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 2001 | case |
| 11 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 began | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the partying | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the century | 2001 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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