Test 13 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

Luke reckons 500 BC came after 200 BC. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Luke, 500 BC · What happens: reckon, come

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	Luke	Luke	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 BC	nummod
4	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 200	case
7	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 came	obl
8	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 200	flat
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Luke						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	past	500 BC				after 200		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, bigger numbers always come later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 numbers	amod
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	bigger numbers					always, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, BC years count forwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 years	compound
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	nsubj
5	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forwards	forward	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	BC years	forwards					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forward=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, BC years count backwards, so 500 BC came first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 years	compound
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	nsubj
5	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 came	advcl
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	5 count	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 500	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 500	advmod
9	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 count	obl
10	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 500	nmod:unmarked
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	BC years	500 BC				backwards property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	past						first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, they happened in the same year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	they				year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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