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title: ★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, to… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, totally legit.» What's up? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 wr
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, totally legit.» What's up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** check, be · **To what, where:** pocket watch

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, totally legit.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t9:1
# text = ★★★ Ruby in Toronto: «Knight in 1100 checks his pocket watch, eh, totally legit.»
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	legit	legit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** *in a quote* | present | ★ and Ruby in Toronto | Knight's pocket watch |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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 up?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t9:2
# text = What's up?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Watches were banned in castles back then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t9:o1:1
# text = Watches were banned in castles back then
1	Watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban back** | past · passive |  | Watches |  | castles | then |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing; it's totally legit, eh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t9:o2:1
# text = Nothing; it's totally legit, eh
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	legit	legit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Pocket watches came about 400 years later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t9:o3:1
# text = Pocket watches came about 400 years later
1	Pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come about** | past | Pocket watches |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Knights could not tell the time in any way at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t9:o4:1
# text = Knights could not tell the time in any way at all
1	Knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Knights |  |  | any way | time | at all | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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