--- title: Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? That's older than my grandad,… — Clocks before clocks: sundials, water… · tree and pragmatics description: Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? That's older than my grandad, lol." How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years? Test 1 of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t1/) [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/) / [Clocks before clocks: sundials, water…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/) / t1 # Test 1 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and… Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? That's older than my grandad, lol." How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** That, many year lives · **What happens:** be, fit This is test 1 of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» 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/122-clocks-before-clocks/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:1 # text = Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Shadow shadow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 3,500 3500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* That's older than my grandad, lol." ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:2 # text = That's older than my grandad, lol." 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 lol lol INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | than my grandad; old *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:3 # text = How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 3,500 3500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit** | present | many year lives | | | | year | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 35 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:o1:1 # text = 35 1 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 50 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:o2:1 # text = 50 1 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:o3:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 500 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t1:o4:1 # text = 500 1 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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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