Test 3 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

Which people have the longest history in their land among these?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: have · To what, where: longest history, land

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 history	det
5	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 history	amod
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 land	nmod:poss
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
10	among	among	ADP	_	11 these	case
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 land	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	which people	the longest history		people's land among these			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=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.

The options

Option 1

The people of the United States since 1776

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 States	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 States	det
5	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 States	amod
6	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 people	nmod
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 1776	case
8	1776	1776	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 States	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The printers who followed Gutenberg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 printers	det
2	printers	printer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 followed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 followed	nsubj
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gutenberg	Gutenberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the printers	Gutenberg					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gutenberg=Theme

Option 3

The first farmers of Britain, for 5,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmers	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 farmers	amod
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Britain	case
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 farmers	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 years	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 farmers	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Aboriginal Australians, for more than 50,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Australians	amod
2	Australians	Australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 years	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 50,000	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Australians	parataxis

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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