Test 1 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago
Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015. In which centuries were they born?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bear · To what, where: Grandma, 1955, centuries
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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: Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1955 | case |
| 5 | 1955 | 1955 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 born | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 granddaughter | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 granddaughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | granddaughter | granddaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 1955 | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2015 | case |
| 10 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 granddaughter | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Grandma | 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: In which centuries were they born?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 centuries | det |
| 3 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | which centuries | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The 19th and the 21st
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 19th | det |
| 2 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 21st | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 21st | det |
| 5 | 21st | 21st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 2 19th | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Both in the 20th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 20th | cc:preconj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 20th | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 20th | det |
| 4 | 20th | 20th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The 20th and the 21st
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 20th | det |
| 2 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 21st | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 21st | det |
| 5 | 21st | 21st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 2 20th | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The 19th and the 20th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 19th | det |
| 2 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 20th | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 20th | det |
| 5 | 20th | 20th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 2 19th | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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