--- title: Asha says the 11:40 cleaning was "donkey's years ago". It's 3:10 pm.… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: Asha says the 11:40 cleaning was "donkey's years ago". It's 3:10 pm. How long has it really been? Test 5 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [How long since? Counting back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/) / t5 # Test 5 · How long since? Counting back Asha says the 11:40 cleaning was "donkey's years ago". It's 3:10 pm. How long has it really been? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Asha, 11:40 cleaning, cleaning · **What happens:** say, be, have · **To what, where:** 3:10, cleaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world 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/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Asha says the 11:40 cleaning was "donkey's years ago". ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:1 # text = Asha says the 11:40 cleaning was "donkey's years ago". 1 Asha Asha 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 11:40 11:40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Asha | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the 11:40 cleaning | | | | year | ago *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:* It's 3:10 pm. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:2 # text = It's 3:10 pm. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 3:10 3:10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | cleaning | 3:10 | | | | pm *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* How long has it really been? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:3 # text = How long has it really been? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | | cleaning | | | | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **be** | participle | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 3 hours 30 minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:o1:1 # text = 3 hours 30 minutes 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 4 hours 10 minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:o2:1 # text = 4 hours 10 minutes 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Many years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:o3:1 # text = Many years 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 30 minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t5:o4:1 # text = 30 minutes 1 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 minutes minute 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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