Test 2 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago
On a timeline, the wheel, writing and printing are marked. In which order do they stand, from oldest to newest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wheel · What happens: mark, stand · To what, where: wheel, timeline, order
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: On a timeline, the wheel, writing and printing are marked.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 timeline | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 timeline | det |
| 3 | timeline | timeline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 timeline | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wheel | det |
| 6 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 writing | punct |
| 8 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wheel | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 printing | cc |
| 10 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wheel | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 marked | aux:pass |
| 12 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 marked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present · passive | the wheel and writing and printing | a timeline | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on timeline=Destination |
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 order do they stand, from oldest to newest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 order | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 order | det |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 oldest | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 oldest | case |
| 9 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 stand | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 newest | case |
| 11 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 oldest | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present · do-support | wheel | which order | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wheel, writing, printing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 writing | punct |
| 3 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wheel | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 printing | punct |
| 5 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wheel | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Printing, wheel, writing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wheel | punct |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Printing | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 writing | punct |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Printing | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Wheel, printing, writing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 printing | punct |
| 3 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wheel | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 writing | punct |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wheel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Writing, printing, wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 printing | punct |
| 3 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Writing | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wheel | punct |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Writing | conj |
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.
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