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How long did news of Waterloo take to reach London in 1815? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** X dad, news · **What happens:** take, not like, do, reach · **To what, where:** ages, phones, London, 1815 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 75 «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ollie's Gen X dad: "Back in my day, news took ages, not like your phones." ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news:t5:1 # text = Ollie's Gen X dad: "Back in my day, news took ages, not like your phones." 1 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 X X PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | past | Ollie's X dad and news | ages | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent age=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ollie's X dad and news *not said here* | your phones | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme | 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 long did news of Waterloo take to reach London in 1815? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news:t5:2 # text = How long did news of Waterloo take to reach London in 1815? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Waterloo Waterloo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1815 1815 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | news of Waterloo | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | news of Waterloo *not said here* | London | | 1815 | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent london=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Seconds ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news:t5:o1:1 # text = Seconds 1 Seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} It never arrived ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news:t5:o2:1 # text = It never arrived 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **arrive** | past | It | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news:t5:o3:1 # text = Years 1 Years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Days ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news:t5:o4:1 # text = Days 1 Days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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