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title: A kid of eight in 1830 in a mill and a kid of eight today. What is t… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid of eight in 1830 in a mill and a kid of eight today. What is the biggest difference? Test 9 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 9 · The Industrial Revolution

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A kid of eight in 1830 in a mill and a kid of eight today. What is the biggest difference?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** biggest difference · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kid of eight in 1830 in a mill and a kid of eight today.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t9:1
# text = A kid of eight in 1830 in a mill and a kid of eight today.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What is the biggest difference?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t9:2
# text = What is the biggest difference?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the biggest difference |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both work twelve hours a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t9:o1:1
# text = Both work twelve hours a day
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Both |  |  |  | day; hour |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No difference at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t9:o2:1
# text = No difference at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Today's child works in a mine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t9:o3:1
# text = Today's child works in a mine
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Today's child |  |  |  |  | in a mine | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mine=Theme |

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

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Today the child goes to school, not to work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:t9:o4:1
# text = Today the child goes to school, not to work
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the child |  |  | school | today |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **work** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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