Test 4 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago
A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500. How many years apart were they made?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make · To what, where: pot, 500, they
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pot | det |
| 2 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 500 | case |
| 6 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 500 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sword | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | nmod |
| 14 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 year | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a pot | 500 BC | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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: How many years apart were they made?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | they | year | apart property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 1,000 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
500 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2,000 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
0 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
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