--- title: Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? That's sick." ("Sick" means bril… — Clocks before clocks: sundials, water… · tree and pragmatics description: Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? That's sick." ("Sick" means brilliant.) How long before 2026 was that? Test 8 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 the questio --- [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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and… Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? That's sick." ("Sick" means brilliant.) How long before 2026 was that? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** That, Sick · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** that This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:1 # text = Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Su Su PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Song Song PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 1088 1088 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* That's sick." ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:2 # text = That's sick." 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 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* ("Sick" means brilliant.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:3 # text = ("Sick" means brilliant.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Sick Sick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sick | | | | | brilliant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 4:* How long before 2026 was that? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:4 # text = How long before 2026 was that? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | that | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 1,938 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:o1:1 # text = 1,938 years 1 1,938 1,938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 838 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:o2:1 # text = 838 years 1 838 838 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1,088 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:o3:1 # text = 1,088 years 1 1,088 1,088 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 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} 938 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:122-clocks-before-clocks:t8:o4:1 # text = 938 years 1 938 938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 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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