Test 10 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago
1990 is that the 19th or 20th century
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 1990 · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 19th | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 19th | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 19th | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 19th | det |
| 5 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 century | cc |
| 7 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 century | amod |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 19th | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 1990 | 19th 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The 19th century
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 century | det |
| 2 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 century | amod |
| 3 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The 20th century
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 century | det |
| 2 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 century | amod |
| 3 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The 10th century
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 century | det |
| 2 | 10th | 10th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 century | amod |
| 3 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The 21st century
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 century | det |
| 2 | 21st | 21st | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 century | amod |
| 3 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/t10/