Test 6 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago
Which is true about the 1st century?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 century | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 century | det |
| 6 | 1st | 1st | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 century | amod |
| 7 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | century | true property | tree rules |
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
It is the years before the year 1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 years | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | nmod |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 year | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the years | year | tree rules |
Option 2
It is the years 1000 to 1100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 years | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | flat |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 1100 | case |
| 7 | 1100 | 1100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1000 | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the years | tree rules |
Option 3
It is the years 100 to 199
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 years | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | flat |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 199 | case |
| 7 | 199 | 199 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 100 | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the years | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is the years 1 to 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 years | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | flat |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 100 | case |
| 7 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1 | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the years | tree rules |
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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