Test 12 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

my classmate says 2005 is in the 20th century cos it starts with 20. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmate, 2005 · What happens: say, be, start · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 classmate	nmod:poss
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	2005	2005	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 century	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 century	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 century	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 century	det
8	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	9 century	amod
9	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 starts	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 starts	nsubj
12	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 century	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 20	case
14	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 starts	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 century	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my classmate	true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	2005	in the 20th century	tree rules
3	start	present	classmate	with 20	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with 20=Subeventuality

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

Yes, all years with 20 are the 20th century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 century	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 years	det
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 century	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 20	case
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 century	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 century	det
9	20th	20th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	10 century	amod
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all years with 20	the 20th century					tree rules

Option 2

No, it is in the 22nd century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 century	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 century	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 century	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 century	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 century	det
7	22nd	22nd	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	8 century	amod
8	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					in the 22nd century	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the 20 shows the century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 shows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 20	det
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 century	det
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the 20				century		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is in the 21st century, the years 2001 to 2100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 century	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 century	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 century	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 century	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 century	det
7	21st	21st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	8 century	amod
8	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 years	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 years	det
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 century	appos
12	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nmod:unmarked
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 2100	case
14	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 2001	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					in the 21st century	tree rules

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