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How long would it really take? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sure Voyager, birthday, it · **What happens:** get, be, take This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space 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/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Liam from Dublin: "Sure Voyager'd get to Proxima before me nan's birthday, it's grand." ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t8:1 # text = ★★★ Liam from Dublin: "Sure Voyager'd get to Proxima before me nan's birthday, it's grand." 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Voyager Voyager PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Proxima proxima NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 17 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | would | Sure Voyager | | | | before nan's birthday | to Proxima *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to proxima=Result | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | birthday | | | | | grand *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. *Sentence 2:* How long would it really take? ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t8:2 # text = How long would it really take? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | would | it | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 8 minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t8:o1:1 # text = About 8 minutes 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} About 75,000 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t8:o2:1 # text = About 75,000 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 75,000 75,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About 4.2 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t8:o3:1 # text = About 4.2 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 4.2 4.2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 47 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t8:o4:1 # text = About 47 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 47 47 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year 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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