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title: Grandad says the first plane flew for an hour. What's right? — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad says the first plane flew for an hour. What's right? Test 6 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · The Industrial Revolution

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Grandad says the first plane flew for an hour. What's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandad, first plane · **What happens:** say, fly, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad says the first plane flew for an hour.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t6:1
# text = Grandad says the first plane flew for an hour.
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the first plane |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t6:2
# text = What's right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Planes came before trains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t6:o1:1
# text = Planes came before trains
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Planes |  |  | trains |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before train=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It flew round the world without landing even once to take on fuel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t6:o2:1
# text = It flew round the world without landing even once to take on fuel
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | It |  |  | the world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **land** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take on** | to-infinitive |  | fuel |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It flew for a whole week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t6:o3:1
# text = It flew for a whole week
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | It |  |  |  | week |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Wright brothers' first flight lasted 12 seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t6:o4:1
# text = The Wright brothers' first flight lasted 12 seconds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Wright	Wright	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the Wright brothers's first flight |  |  |  | second |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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